[ksolanki]

As someone who has developed exclusively on Android, this article seems like an interesting read, especially because it is written by someone who has programmed in iOS before moving to Android ("porting" iPhone app to Android). I wonder if the take would be different when I/someone move(s) to iOS from Android.

I agree that fragmentation is one big pain point of Android. It needs to be considered even between different device manufacturers, not just API changes, when it comes to things like the camera preview. UI responsiveness is another factor that is a disadvantage in Android, which has to be considered explicitly while developing.

[ikhare]

I didn't mention it in the article, but I did Android programming before I did iOS. I was doing Android programming before the iPhone SDK came out in 2008. When the iOS SDK came out, I moved to the platform that had real users and phones. Android didn't have actual phones until late 2008.

I don't remember much of my feelings of the platforms from those early days because I was in a frenzied coding mode trying to release the first few apps in the App Store. But I do remember being frustrated by the lack of something like a GridView in iOS.