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by grbalaffa
4665 days ago
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All this talk about process, but not a word about the quality of the SDK itself. Android is quite frankly still very far behind when it comes to really basic things. Here's just one example: iOS has had easy support for custom fonts in native UI elements since the early days, meanwhile here is the situation on Android: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2973270/using-a-custom-ty... (Yes, the thread was started in 2010, but scroll to the bottom to see more recent comments -- things have scarcely gotten any better.) Anyone who has actually deployed a non-trivial app on both Android and iOS knows quite well which one is the "better" development environment. |
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We have mainly been doing iOS apps but we are hearing demand from customers about having an option in Android so one of our developers (who is definitely much more of an Apple fan) has been experimenting with the Android SDK and he has been very impressed with the Android SDK. He has found many things to be far easier in the Android SDK than with iOS. His main complaint is with the emulator which is extremely frustrating to use but since it's dead easy to use your device that's not as big of a deal.