do you think over time android users will get quality apps like iphone users!?. I used to own an iphone and feel i had a better selection of apps. i miss my iphone alittle. i feel android is more flexible though, and has great potential.any big companys making android apps?
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I'm looking for a way to easily port content driven applications from one mobile platform to another. Currently HTML5+js seems to be the only language that can be easily reused.Can you share your experience? I'm looking for a way to go forward.
View 2 Replies View RelatedThere is a really good sticky application out there for the ipod touch called "Stick it". Basically you enter the application and make stickies on a board then save it. It then gets imported as a jpg then you add the jpg to your lockscreen.I was wondering if there is anything like this on the market? I dont wanna go through over 20 sticky apps looking for one. Or if you can port it to the android? I am running a HTC Hero for Sprint.
View 9 Replies View RelatedAlthough not really a programming question I believe many developers would have come across this and therefore give the best answer.Currently I am developing an App for iPhone for the organisation I work for. Its close to release and there is heaps of interest when I present it but the occasional question comes up am I going to port it to Android. My answer is I would like to but according to web stats more than 90% of phones hitting our website are iPhones and the other 10% is declining (probably people migrating away from Blackberry, last count was 98% was iOS)Now if you read the media many people would like you to believe that its a split market between Android and iPhone but this might be just in the U.S where the single carrier for the iPhone has limited its consumer uptake because all the information available to us (at least in my organisation) states otherwise.
I was curious to hear from other people who have looked into these stats both inside and outside the U.S because when I tell the person asking that there is no demand they dismiss it and say its growing, once again contradicting the stats available for our organisation.I am really interested in Android dev so don't really want to hear that I should just make it to give people an alternative, it's hard to justify to management that I should spend their money to deliver content to 5% of our market. Currently it makes more sense to make a cut down web App rather than an Android App.
No.1) Angry Birds very fun sick ass game. Huge hit on iOS, am pretty sure you heard of it. They said its coming to android but no one knows the date. Hopefully this month.
No.2) Minigore- Another huge hit on iOS, this is my second favorite game. Its super fun, addicting, funny and just pure awesome.
No.3) Plants vs Zombies- This is the most fun and challenging game on iOS in my opinion. Its fun, deep, creative, clever and freakin rocks. The best game on any mobile platform period. don't chew my head off people it's just my opinion.
This game is so fun my buddy had to break up with his long times girlfriend because she didn't cook or clean anymore all she wants to do is play plants vs zombies. Seriously.If these games can be ported over to android it would be sweet. There's just not enough games like these for android their are a few thats great but adding these three i think would make a lot of android phone owners happy, i know i would. I wouldn't need this ipod anymore for sure. Well there you have it people, this is just my opinion let me know what you think?
I know the "cool kid in school" thing to do is make fun of the iPhone market for having 1,000's of 'Fart apps'
But let's be honest at the end of the day it's really not true, and now coming from being a previous iPhone owner and now a Droid owner i can honestly say, the iPhone app market wins by a TON.
This is just a general QUALITY of apps comparison as well.
NO i'm not switching back... but man do i miss the iPhone apps...
Especially facebook.. and others..
You can REALLY tell the difference between the quality of iPhone apps vs Android,
So why am i starting this thread?.. Well i'm hoping maybe a developer could chime in and enlighten us on why this is...
Things i'm curious about-
Is programming in android worse then in the iPhone OS? is that why apps are WAY less in quality?
And you can't give the excuse that it's because things are new, when the iPhone market came out the apps were quality at day 1, many of them were.
So what's the difference? i guess software...
Well i'm sticking with android even though this exists.. in hopes that maybe future Android OS updates and SDK's will improve this very obvious difference.. right now i'm not impressed at all... the apps are all Slow, and they look horrible.
And for twitter? holy crap... iPhone owners back me up here, but the iPhone twitter apps are lightyears ahead of android twitter apps.
Just take a look at Tweetdeck for iPhone, and compare to to what i guess is the best android twitter app, twidroid?
Compare those and you'll see what i'm talking about.
I know of Skies of Glory, but how many apps do you guys know of that you can play your iphone friends in. I know there arent many. But i think there are 2 or 3 that you really have to look for but they just arent coming to mind aside from SoG.
Believe it or not, i still have 1 or 2 friends that havent converted to the evo and are still using that old iphone thing. Would love to kill em in words with friends but i know thats not for android (yet).
rooting and stuff and I want to use the Sleep Cycle alarm clock that is available only for iPhones..
using apps already on the market, I've tried a few and most don't match up with the iphone app
I have friends that have iphones and I was wondering if there are any other apps that are compatible with eachother, only one I know of is "bump". I'm not talking about apps that are both available for each, but apps where you can play games with eachother, GPS locators ect.
View 8 Replies View RelatedHave somewhat limited exposure but what I do have on Android Apps is not positive.The Apple Apps store is far superior to what you get with AppBrain and Market.The Android Apps always give a very vague and sketchy description, next to impossible to get details of what it does.I bought Bettercut and Cashbook - Expense Tracker, both sucked in a big way.Already uninstalled both.The open architecture of Android is a great concept and I love my DroidX.I hope the apps come along soon to make the whole thing complete.
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This is very pathetic, obviously written by an iPhone fanboi. When you get to the multitasking part watch how he can only switch between 4 very small apps and that's all he does.
Are there any face/picture morphing apps for android like there are on the iphone?
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhat are some iPhone or Android applications that use SMS as their primary means of user authentication?I'm interested to see such apps in action. SMS-auth seems like a natural approach that is well-situated to mobile contexts.
The basic workflow is: to sign up,a user provides a phone number; the app calls a backend webservice which generates a signed URL and sends it to the phone number via an SMS gateway; the user receives the SMS, clicks the link, and is thus verified and logged in. This results in a very strong user identity that is difficult to spoof yet fairly easy. It can be paired with a username or additional account attributes as needed for the product requirements.Despite the advantages, this does not seem to be in much use - hence my question. My initial assumption is that this is because products and users are wary of asking for / providing phone numbers, which users consider sensitive information. That said, I hope this becomes an increasingly more commonplace approach.
Some of the developers of iPhone apps seem to be a little complacent with developing counterpart apps for the Android Market. Maybe if we inundate them with requests and show them how high the demand is, they'll get off of their keysters and start with the Android development. To make this easier for us all, I've compiled a list of some of the most popular iPhone apps that don't have an Android version yet, along with the email addresses, twitter accounts, and 'contact us' sites that you can all use to contact the developers to simply say "We want an Android app!" Just like money, demand talks. Plus, every new app we get (or at least get someone to get started on) is one less thing the Apple fan boys can brag about!
Please feel free to add any apps you would want to see (like IMDB for instance).Make sure you include the corresponding contact info. I'm hoping the Moderators will make this a sticky thread.As I was developing this list, I was going to include eBay, since they did not have an official Android app...that is until I saw it in the Market a couple days ago! The apps are coming, we just have to keep pressing people for them.
I just wanted to check, e.g. on my Hero I can run GPS Tracker and press home and it will run in the background, play some music and press home and it will run in the background and go and do something else.
Are you saying the iPhone would have to completely exit the GPS Tracker to use another app or leave the GPS Tracker open and not do anything else for it to work?
I just ported the 2.1 gallery over to my moto droid (which is awesome btw). But now it shows that I have 2 galleries installed when i open my launcher.I just cant figure out how to delete the 2.0.1 version.When I go to Settings>Applications>Manage Applications, all that is there is the 2.1 version, even after I filter to "all".
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there any way I can make my android behave like iphone does with apps and processes when I'm noy using them?On ios 6 and previous (in ios7 it is optional) background app processing is disabled, so battery when not using the phone isn't almost wasted.I don't really need that full multitasking android provides, but I do need better battery life.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an HP Touchpad and a Galaxy Nexus, both devices with ICS and good quality screens - but I am looking for games and stuff I can play on them.
I am looking for high quality games, that has both good content and good graphics.
I have games such as Anomaly HD, World Of Goo, Edge, Dungeon Defenders, Osmos HD, Backstab HD. I also heard that portal, counter strike and GTA 3 was ported.
Is there any other good ports? Or high quality games.
Ok so AWHILE ago in the droid forum someone posted their screen shot and it had a black facebook widget skin... I believe it was ported from Sense maybe... by xda maybe... anyways i tried searching and couldn't find it... Does anyone have the link to get it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedJust curious, found a couple that I would like to have (sports related) that Android Market doesn't have anything close to.
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