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And the age old argument: "You mean Android X?? The version that only 3% will have by next year?". Ever heard of support libraries? Most features announced end up being backwards compatible to Gingerbread. Like Instant Apps being compatible all the way back to Jellybean, which makes it about 90% users worldwide.
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@mohammed the worst part is I've seen people with a genuinely tainted idea of Android. Once I let them try it, they usually go out and trade their iPhone for an Android phone. These websites report like Android hasn't changed or improved since 2010
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I used to be a big Android fan back in the day - so much so that I took on making Android apps as my career. But after the hundred out of memory error while dealing with bitmaps (that were no more than a few Mb in size) I got sick of it and moved to iOS. As a user it's one thing but as a developer there's no way I'm going back to that hell hole.
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@xroad I think you have a very outdated image of Android. When was the last time you tried it?
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I test on Huawei running KitKat if I remember correctly. Could be lollipop.
To your point - every OEM wants their own flavor of Android so even the APIs that are supported have tons of undocumented bugs. I had to deal with a stupid keyboard issue this one time. Scratched my head for a good couple of days and it turned out my code was crapping out because TouchWiz implemented some weird default keyboard that broke the functionality I was trying to implement. -
@xroad can't account for every case, you just have to wait for feedback and crash dumps to try and fix it
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@gustash exactly. No such issue with iOS. Still, it doesn't mean android is a bad platform
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@xroad I'd much rather deal with that than with tens of different certificates lol
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Why not! 😂
I hate when Apple news websites do articles on Android. 99% of the time it's pure bullshit coming from someone whose last experience with Android was Gingerbread, if any. 9to5mac is a really bad offender, but so feel TheVerge is extra shitty with Android articles. For someone who claims to do news on everything impartially, they warp their sights towards Apple way too much.
That obviously means that costumers will get scared of leaving Apple for what might be a better experience for their use case. I just absolutely hate this kind of partial journalism.
TL;DR fuck 9to5mac and The Verge for scaring people off using Android with misinformation
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