Hi Guys. I actually have another issue that I think is important as well. Even IF the phone got more internal memory so you could use bigger programs, another difference from the "iphone" is that on android an App can only use 16MB heap space. This is actually quite a limitation if you are doing some fancy program to process audio or data streams.
Of course there are ways around such a limit (using sdcard to temporarily store data, memory swapping in effect), but as an example I point you to an iphone app called BeatMaker, which is a music making app on the iphone. It loads WAV files and allows you to sequence them (my Electrum Drum II program is a basic version of this capabililty). BeatMaker software on the iphone can load up to 35MB of samples, and in the next version they will allow up to 100MB of samples. Now obviously this program is just faster anyway being that it's not written in Java, so they could probably dynamically load data much quicker, but I don't think the iphone OS has any heap limitations except for max memory in the device. So really to compare android to the iphone OS is really never a good thing to do, they will never be equivalent. 16MB of heap yes, is a lot compared to most phone apps requirements, but if you compare it to what a app COULD do - well it can become another limitation. So I guess what I'm saying is we need to stop comparing android to the iphone. Unfortuantely I think most users WILL do so, and they will be like, "hey, why can't you make the program do XXXX? They can do it on the iphone", and then we are left holding the back to try to explain the technical details and of course they don't understand those. It's really another one of the "frustrations" we will just have to put up with. Face it some apps just can't be done on android, period. -niko --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
