Developing For Android

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Kim-Mai Cutler, TechCrunch:

You know how many Android developers complain about fragmentation? Yeah, this is what fragmentation looks like.

Animoca, a Hong Kong mobile app developer that has seen more than 70 million downloads, says it does quality assurance testing with about 400 Android devices. Again, that’s testing with four hundred different phones and tablets for every app they ship!

This isn’t to knock Android. Rather, I never fully considered the challenge of testing apps on an open OS. Kudos to those who care enough to try. This may go to the heart of why some developers default to iOS.