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Maybe I'm a bit biased as a more seasoned iOS dev, but I think that the entire development experience for iOS is a lot more fun than Android. This runs the gamu
by bennyg 13y ago
Maybe I'm a bit biased as a more seasoned iOS dev, but I think that the entire development experience for iOS is a lot more fun than Android. This runs the gamut from using Xcode and contributing to the community, to launching apps and talking to users. Android, although open source, isn't easier or a whole heck of a lot of fun to program for. Not every Android class is documented (just yesterday I had to read the source code file for AnimatorPath because no top level documentation was available). One step of the myriad of steps to get push notifications working is to copy a string of characters between two colons of the URL bar in the browser. C'mon Google. If you want to make it better for developers, start by making it easier.
Nobody really talks too much about how much "fun" it is to develop for their platform of choice. I think this is a huge factor - one that outweighs most of the objective reasons for using one daily.