[contextfree]

What is the deployment and debugging experience like on Android or iOS? I was impressed with the Visual Studio integration when I played with WP7 development a bit - you can just hit F5 and your app starts up on the phone in debug mode in, like, two seconds, and you can then step through it in Visual Studio, set breakpoints, hover over variables to see their values, and even evaluate expressions in the immediate window.

I was vaguely expecting some cumbersome deployment process, but it feels no heavier than running something on the PC. But I've never developed for other mobile platforms, so maybe this is just standard?

[metageek]

That's about how it is on Android. Maybe more than 2 seconds, though. 3? 5? Something like that.

[sad_hacker]

With WM 3 seconds? It takes only to boot up 3-4 minutes. Emulator is painfully slow. Whole internet is full of complaints about it...

[contextfree]

Debugging on the actual device is a much, much better experience than debugging on the emulator.

[sad_hacker]

I agree. I'm doing it myself also, otherwise it would be impossible to develop for android. But you need to test your application on different screen sizes, dpi etc. Or you can buy loads of different phones to test on them all.

[contextfree]

OK, cool. The shorter time is probably just because I only ever got as far as writing toy apps.