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by thevectorist 5358 days ago
Please don't put words into my mouth or make assumptions about me. I am primarily an iOS dev. An app I worked on won an Apple Design Award and multiple other apps are in the Top 5 paid apps for their category in the iTunes store. To say that I develop for iOS at a basic level is laughable at best.

XCode isn't perfect, but I don't need google for blog posts or spend hours writing scripts or messing with configuration files in order to get it into a usable state.

Being open source has nothing to do with how easy a platform is to develop on. All that means is that the platform's source code is available.
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camdykeman 5357 days ago
My appologies, I didn't realize I was putting words in your mouth. I believe it was your post that called Android dev. a pain though, and unless I'm mistaken it was also you who referred to the emulator as an obstacle. Finally, I said all these things in relation to MY experience. As for my assumptions, i simply assumed you were an amatuer Android developer because, despite the fact that Android is known to be used on a wide selection of devices--all of which couldnt possibly be accomodated on one emulator in any effective way--you are still fixating on the fact that the emulator doesnt cater to your expert needs. I suppose I simply assumed that someone like yourself would have moved on from such a basic method of developement, since "to say that [you] develop for iOS at a basic level is laughable at best."

Just watch that your horse desn't fall off that precariously-high ledge and crush us lowly startup operators.

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cookiecaper 5358 days ago
The Android application I'm developing is immensely easier because of Android's open-source nature. Not only are things simpler on my physical phone because of cyanogenmod, but the basis for my program is actually Google's Camera app -- I literally copy the code verbatim and make the necessary changes. My project would be many, many more times work if I had to start a camera application from scratch (for what I want to do, using the intent that exports to the native camera widgets that are pluggable into your application is not sufficient, I need full control of the process).
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campnic 5357 days ago
Why does being an iOS developer give your insight into the Android platform credibility?
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