Where Android Beats the iPhone 365
snydeq writes "Peter Wayner provides a developer's comparison of Android and the iPhone and finds Android not only competitive but in fact a better choice than the iPhone for many developers, largely due to its Java foundation. 'While iPhone developers have found that one path to success is playing to our baser instincts (until Apple shuts them down), a number of Android applications are offering practical solutions that unlock the power of a phone that's really a Unix machine you can slip into your pocket,' Wayner writes, pointing out GScript and Remote DB as two powerful tools for developers to make rough but workable custom tools for Android. But the real gem is Java: 'The pure Java foundation of Android will be one of the biggest attractions for many businesses with Java programmers on the staff. Any Java developer familiar with Eclipse should be able to use Google's Android documentation to turn out a very basic application in just a few hours. Not only that, but all of the code from other Java programs will run on your Android phone — although it won't look pretty or run as fast as it does on multicore servers.'"
amazing! (Score:5, Funny)
After reading the article, I was able to port my entire Java repository to Android in just a few minutes. Of course, that consists of three versions of "Hello, world!"
Re:Use "em" not "px" when defining the UI (Score:3, Funny)
You always can use layout managers...
Only Windows UI Programmers complain about screen sizes...
Re:Java as an "advantage?" (Score:4, Funny)
Which year are you living in, Xcode doesn't seem to have a problem doing it for me.
Of course, I've had refactoring in notepad for years. Search and replace is hard.
Re:wake me up when it catches up (Score:3, Funny)
It works for these guys: http://www.google.com/ [google.com]
Maybe they'll hit it big someday and create a competitor to Android.
Re:It's biggest strength (Score:4, Funny)
Why was this modded down? Is it wrong? Apple has gone from evil yet innovative to just evil. Their recent lawsuits all but scream "We are out of ideas! Release the lawyers!"
It was modded down because the iphone owners on slashdot got to it before the android owners did.
Re:amazing! (Score:5, Funny)
You joke, but in Java that represents a substantial amount of work.