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Carlos

"about to"? iOS and Android have been duking it out for a while.

Hey Carlos,

I would like to have a serious answer to the following questions:

1) Why do your posts lately have a negativ touch regarding Android?
2) Is Ansca continuously implementing more Android features and will bring the Android part of Corona up to par with the IOS version?
3) Who is working on the Android part of Corona atm?

As I am more interested into Android devwlopment (which actually lead me to subscribing to Corona), I would like to see that Ansca gives the Android part of Corona as much love as you guys do for the IOS side.

Right now all you guys post about is IOS stuff. Nothing about Android.

Carlos, I certainly don't feel the love ;-)

Just give me an honest answer so I can plan my dev future for Android.

Cheers
Michael Hartlef

http://www.whiteskygames.com
http://www.twitter.com/mhartlef

#1) To be honest, Android development is a pain in the xxx. So we vent like regular engineers. We do all the work so that you don't have to. We fix one thing for this OS then it breaks other things on that other OS version.

#2) We are committed to Android and are working diligently to bring it up to par with the iOS version. Ergo, one of the reasons our Windows version is labeled beta. We know that there are somethings that work and don't work. So we didn't want to release it as a product, when we knew there are issues.

#3) Every engineer at Ansca is working on Android except me. Am the odd man out. It is a nightmare to setup the development environment and I finally gave up

#4) I will re-iterate, we are committed to Android. We are also going to be dropping 2.1 and below support as 2.2 has now 52% market share. 51.8% to be exact according to the latest Google numbers I have.

#5) How serious is our commitment? We would have not done a Windows version if we didn't think Android was viable. Part of the reason for doing a Windows version was due to the Asian market. A lot of our Asian developers are Android and Wintel centric. How is that for commitment.

#6) I think that dropping support for lower end and old OS shows that we are serious about Android. We can't sustain a development model where we have to support every OS out there when the market share is not there.

#7) There will be features that only exist on one platform vs the other, those features will go in depending on user feedback and requests.

#8) Feel the love yet?

We are 100% committed and you should not worry about us dropping Android. Besides, a blog post should not be considered a premonition of things to come. You should know me by now. ;-)

C.

Thanks for the answer.

Carlos,

Is there a public list of Corona's priorities in bring up android functionality up to speed with apple ?

we are putting together a matrix.

c

so Android is supported from 2.2 and up...
what about IOS? what is the minimal version?