| famousringo said: Ouch. I just found a rather good demonstration of the problem with Android's ecosystem. I'm sure these Android apps are functional, but they also uglay: http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,3253,l%253D295472%2526a%253D295476%2526po%253D1,00.asp?p=n Seems to be a direct result of trying to support every possible screen size, density, and aspect ratio. In fairness, I've stumbled across a few iPad apps with Stretched Phone App Syndrome (SPAS). Just look at the crappy official Facebook and Twitter apps for iPad in that slideshow. Thank goodness for third party Twitter clients. Anyway, just know what you're getting into. |
Yeah, that's partly why I haven't bought a tablet yet.
Honeycomb is only a year old and it was the first real tablet OS, problem is it was initially completely separate from Androids phone OS base.
ICS is only a few months old and is now rolling out to all tablets and some phones. ICS is a perfect bridge between the phones and tablets and all between. It has SDKs to handle the screen sizes more effectively and allows developers to make one app (not two as in iPad) and have multiple different viewing UIs to best fit the screen size. For Android, where OEMs make a large variance of platforms, this makes perfect sense. But iOS is not as important as there is only a very small set of possible views. So simply putting out a 2nd app for iPad is simple.
Heck ICS is an amazing step up from the previous versions and adds a lot of stuff to begin the correction of fragmentation in Android. From unified menus to simply SDKs to handle any screen size, this is the start of ending the only real drawback between Android and iOS.
