Real Problem about Android
by Onur Avsar
No, it is not fragmentation. Developing same application for different kind of devices which have different screen sizes and all other hardware based differences is not easy. But it is easier than developing for different operating systems with different programming languages.
Of course developing for a fragmented operating system is not preferred, fortunately Android SDK came with really good tools and techniques which makes application development not only possible also easier than expected. Moreover, this fragmentation came with some bonuses such as chance of reaching to more people. Undoubtedly, if Android ecosystem would be more strict like iOS, Android could not reach to such large penetrations. Therefore, smartphone sector would have more major operating systems instead of two. And that would make mobile application development strictly harder.
Fragmentation of Android ecosystem is not something we should complain about it, it is something we should be thankful. Real problem about Android is its cheapness. Android is cheap. When comparing with iOS platform Android has no premium style. Moreover this problem starts from application development. Android absolutely is a nice operating system and some Android devices have really high-level hardware but when topic comes to third most important part of this ecosystem which is native applications, Android absolutely is not shine against iOS. Android apps have slightly lower quality than iOS. And I believe biggest responsibility on this problem is belong to Android’s development environment provided by Google. While Apple provides XCode and Interface Builder, Google provides Eclipse with ADT Plugin. Of course, Eclipse is a great IDE however when comparing it with XCode, it looks a little cheap. I believe that iOS’s nicely designed development environment makes app developers more sensitive about their own applications’ design. Therefore, this situation makes Android apps look poorly designed against iOS apps.
Speak in your own name. Not all Android apps are ugly.
Anyway, it seems to be your opinion, and you did not back it up with anything concrete. Shame, because THAT would have actually helped, this way it’s pretty much just a blogrant :)
There are shitty apps and devs everywhere. And there are great apps and devs in every platform.
We have a nice argument against with TweetLine, the french dev, HappyDr0id, made an Android 2.1 compatible app with the great and smooth interface of ICS (4.0).
Eclipse is really cheap.I come from VS world and its like i moved to Uganda.
vay aq şoklardayım lan bunca zamandır neden sakladın bu web sitesini benden :D
I was going to think fragmentation when I first read the title of this post. (By the way, for those who complain about fragmentation, nobody in the real world really cares about it!)
I don’t agree at all with you that Android is cheap, nor its apps. There are many ugly apps on Android and iOS, but that doesn’t mean that all their apps are ugly and cheap.