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With all its flaws and lets say "quirks" because we are doing with Google here, I am happy to be an android developer and make good money with it (Germany). I
by carstenhag 3y ago
With all its flaws and lets say "quirks" because we are doing with Google here, I am happy to be an android developer and make good money with it (Germany).
I usually compare my situation with my iOS colleagues. When I find a bug or documentation issue in a Google library that is still maintained properly, after creating a bug on their issue tracker, you usually get a real person to properly analyze your issue within 1 month, maybe it's even fixed in that timeframe if you are lucky.
Sometimes you think a library is maintained and officially it is so, but they say development has stopped because of other priorities. Or "basic" features take years to be implemented.
If you know the right person on Twitter you might be able to get it moving internally.
My iOS colleagues can submit private bug reports but chances are super low someone is ever looking at it. There's no community around it, it seems.
- walteweiss 3y agoWhat about the difference in pay checks and difficulty of the development? E.g. I know many iOS developers that are, how to say that, very far from being techy, geeky or whatever name we’d use for the community. Some of them aren’t even aware about what git is (yet they use it somehow), but their pay check way higher than the one Android developers have. Also (if they work for a company) they’re given all the needed devices (e.g. a MacBook Pro, iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad, if needed). I haven’t seen an Android developer that is treated like that. And for me it looks like Android developers need to know way more, yet they’re under appreciated.
- gumby 3y agoMost of the complaints about allow are just flaming, but this is straight, legit criticism. I don’t understand why Apple has chronically been so terrible towards developers. They need them!