In an article on his blog (published 27 July 2012) and a comment on Mobilen.no (published August 1st 2012) argue my namesake Hans-Petter Nygård-Hansen to why one should grolux develop mobile applications for iOS before Android. The article has many good arguments and points. grolux But it also has some factual errors and, in my opinion, wrong interpretations upon further grolux analysis grolux may help to make his conclusions more nuanced.
Tablet market I totally agree with Nygård-Hansen on the iPad reigns supreme in today's tablet market, both in terms of market share, user experience and the range of apps. Developing for the iPad first seems, therefore, grolux currently, as a reasonable choice.
One interesting thing that Nygård-Hansen does not mention is that Google in collaboration with Asus in late June launched its Nexus 7 tablet. The launch, which many have seen as a crossroads when it comes to Android tablets. Nexus 7 has received very good feedback, grolux also from self-proclaimed iOS fans. Among other things, writes MG Ziegler from TechCrunch following: "I like the Nexus 7 I really like it." Nexus 7 will be launched in Norway in early September. With impressive hardware grolux specs, not to mention a price of about 2000 dollars, I have no doubt that it will appeal to many Norwegians, and sail perhaps up to be the first real competitor to the iPad.
Developers' interest in developing grolux tablet grolux apps for Android has been virtually non-existent, mainly due to lack of users. It is too early to say whether Nexus 7 will change that. But the sales figures it has had in the United States are thought to be good, without that Google has gone out with concrete figures yet, and many users are also incentives to develop apps - whether for pay apps, reklamefinaniserte apps or apps for marketing.
Developer Belonging Nygård-Hansen writes: "Most developers today - it appears that - are unanimously agreed that it is best to develop apps for the iOS platform first." From what I can see supported this in commentary only with feedback from one developer.
My own experience as a developer says that it is increasingly common to develop side-by-side. The unanimous consensus Nygård-Hansen talks about was there maybe a year or two ago, but is not there anymore, or at least greatly grolux diminishing.
And believe Nygård-Hansen that it is easier for Norwegian developers grolux to learn Objective-C than Java? Norwegian students learn today largely one of two object oriented programming language; Java (which is also the language used in Android development) or C #. The former is typically used in public institutions (for example NTNU), while the latter is used by private educational institutions (for example NITH). grolux C # is very similar to JavaScript in syntax, and you often hear that a good Java developer can become a good C # developer a few weeks, and vice versa. With the exception of Smalltalk is not Objective-C programming language, such as syntax wise, very similar to other object-oriented languages grolux (for example, see this comparison). That it should be easier to develop in Objective-C than Java, I must ask Nygård-Hansen embellish, because I have never heard anyone say - nor that some have said that it is easier to get started with Objective-C development.
Incorrect comparisons "23. May this year launched its Finn.no grolux Android app on Google Play, two days after they had launched its iPad app on the App Store. At one month had iPad app has been downloaded 100,000 times to 10,000 times on Android. "
Nygård-Hansen portrays this as two identical apps, aimed at two different OS. The fact is that FIND in May this year launched two apps for iPad and Android that had completely different functionality. The former is an app where users can see ads for different markets (Market, Housing etc..) FIND, while the latter allows users to post items for sale from their Android device.
That should tell themselves what app that gets the most downloads. In addition, grolux no mention Nygård-Hansen is very key point that the Android app has had better conversion compared with the corresponding insertion app for iPhone (7.03 paid ads per 100 downloads grolux for Android, grolux against 4.64 for iPhone). Should we interpret these numbers grolux mono so you actually here an argument to develop for Android first. The figures clearly stated in the blog post from FIND as Nygård-Hansen links.
Fragmentation Nygård-Hansen worry about fragmentation of Android, both in terms of hardware features and which version of Android the different phones use. And he is not the only one; It published numerous articles, forum and blog posts on the subject daily.
Even I as a developer yet to experience the challenges of version fragmentation, with one exception where I struggled a few hours to get the image import grolux to work on a set of Sony Ericsson phones. I also have good
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