ANDROID LAUNCH

When Android was launched just over a year, he created little enthusiasm but much hope. Today the situation is different: there are now over 12 phones with Google system and several others that are yet to emerge. But what seems an advantage can be a double-edged sword, for fear of some developers.

What fans always boasted of Android is the fact that it is an open system (open-source) and compatible with various different marks. But that usually brings more problems than solutions when you create an application that runs on any platform. That's because each phone (HTC, Motorola or Sony Ericsson) has its own characteristics, and uses a customized version of the system. The chances of creating multiple points of incompatibility are very large

Besides having different settings screens, not all devices have the same functions. With different hardware, it is difficult to make a single application for all of them. The nightmare for developers is precisely in the fact that his work published in the  Android Market may not work on certain devices, which would make the consumer believe it is the fault of the application. From there you can already predict the damage and prejudice of bad reviews image. Who is excited to venture development time for this 

 

 

Moreover, precisely because it is an open system, there are several modified versions of it, which further increases the risk of incompatibility. Only official versions are already 4 (Android 1.1, 1.5, 1.6 and 2.0), which now vastly complicates life in the SDK. Chris Fagan , co-founder of Froogloid , a company focused on developing applications for Android, vents:

 For those who have tried to move a little in the Android SDK ( freedownload ) clearly sees the difference when compared to that of the iPhone. Additional facilities and nothing quite intuitive complicate the task, the fault also concern in making a tool compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux