Actually, I do find that Android is harder to get the hang of than either iPhone or Qt for Nokia, but it's because the Android environment is so obscure and irregular. Switching from Objective C to Qt/C++ to Java is no problem for anyone with reasonable programming skills -- you could fairly easily write a program to translate between them for "business logic". The harder part is the environment/OS and, to a lesser extent, the UI.
On May 15, 10:56 am, Harri Smått <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 15, 2011, at 3:09 PM, DanH wrote: > > > A skilled programmer with no Android experience will take about 2 weeks to > > begin > > earning his keep, and a month or two to become comfortable with the > > technology. > > Here I tend to have slightly different opinion. While I agree mostly, I've > seen following happening (not to forget Nokia made their decision to switch > to Windows Phone on pretty much the same reason). Meaning many of the highly > skilled software developers I've had pleasure to work with seem to be a bit > afraid of Android. There's so huge momentum many seem to think it's difficult > to find your place as a senior software developer, architect what so ever, > the role you're used to be at, given the fact you have to start everything > from scratch. And for many, it's been C/C++ they've been working with. Some > of them their whole working career. > > Now, given Java, not everyone is very much interested in learning it, and > explore yet unknown possibilities of Android in general. And if this is the > case, I find it very difficult to see who should be considered 'more > experienced', the one with enthusiasm or the one with 10+ years of previous > programming experience. > > Granted, it seems to be very difficult to become successful within Android > market, and making your living out of it isn't the simplest task one can > think of. But still, I tend to think it's better to have too much competition > compared to situation where there is no competition at all (this is why I > rarely have talks with sales department :). > > But oh well, back to on-topic, and more specific questions. Just wanted to > share my 2 cents. > > -- > H -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
