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by mtholking 5716 days ago
His first point is incorrect, native iOS apps can be linked through custom URLs - http://www.handleopenurl.com/
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mahmud 5716 days ago
Android streamlines this, and provides it out of the box, backed by the full-confidence of the OS :-)

For data, you can use ContentProvider:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-...

You can also use capabilities of other applications, including UI and logic by reusing their Intents :-)

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/intents/intents-fi...

Smalltalk and Lisp gray-beards must wet their pants every time they read up on Android. It's pretty much the epitome of a clean, extensible, user-oriented system. Fast, open, garbage collected, gorgeous and just clean. How on earth did they get some many things right, out of the box?

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