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Typical poor TechCrunch reporting... "We’ve spoken with a number of high profile Android application developers. All of them, without exception, have told me t
by JereCoh 17y ago
Typical poor TechCrunch reporting...
"We’ve spoken with a number of high profile Android application developers. All of them, without exception, have told me they are extremely frustrated with Android right now. For the iPhone, they build once and maintain the code base. On Android, they built once for v.1.5, but are getting far less installs than the iPhone."
Is he suggesting getting far less installs is related to maintaining a single code base? Really?
"They say they’re going to have to build and maintain separate code for various Android devices. Some devices seem to have left out key libraries that are forcing significant recoding efforts, for example."
I have experienced broken APIs in Android OS updates, but I've never experienced a missing library between devices running the same Android OS version. If he's going to make such a claim, he should back it up.
- kogir 17y agoHave you used android devices not made by google? Of course all devices released by google will be consistent. As more players enter this space, and each takes liberties with what libraries are available or how well they're implemented, android development will get progressively harder. With regard to sources, everyone who's worked on a non google android device is probably under NDA.