I am about to abandon Android myself, after spending the majority of
last year learning and developing in it. I am not in Canada. My main
concerns are to do with the difficulty of getting information systematically
(everything seems piecmeal and you feel that you are always dependent on
'maybe' getting help from the forums), and the fact that everything seems
geared exclusively towards touch screens. I have just completed a useful app
that does a fair bit and I am pretty happy with it. But for my apps, I
prefer to use a physical keypad. What a pain it was to get rid of the
virtual keyboard, finding out how to do so, and then having to deal with
unwanted side effects. There are still issues of selection and highlighting
that seem to stem from Android wanting to be in touch mode and me not
wanting to be in touch mode. My own standard for User Interface design,
means that an extra keystroke by the operator to sort this isn't good
enough. Then the problem of fragmentation definitely erodes the attraction
of Android for me. Oops, some Android engineers get cranky if you say that.
I won't put my app onto the Apps market. I will rewrite it for a different
environment and sell it elsewhere. From comments on the forums, the Apps
market seems to be about the same standard as Android generally, which for
me is not good enough.
----- Original Message -----
From: "ian" <[email protected]>
To: "Android Developers" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 10:32 AM
Subject: [android-developers] Should Canadian Android developers switch to
iPhone instead"
Hey Canucks:
It appears that paid Android apps cannot currently be bought or sold
in Canada.
Google seems unwilling to clarify this important concern for northern
Android developments. Why the silence Mountain View?
Continuing Android app development under this uncertainty seems a
waste of time indeed.
Are any other Canucks thinking about jumping ship? For me, switching
now would be a major setback of at least two months.
On the other hand at least there would be a functioning Market and
many, many more possible customers.
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