On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Marco van de Voort <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe, but only if some dominant vendor emerges that standarizes a certain > set of features across its line. This is now chaos.
I don't think it is that bad. Software written for Android usually works out of the box if you stick to the Android API, as opposed to use your own custom-drawn widgetset. The manufacturers add a lot of non-standard stuff, but they always test against the Android API, but they don't test against non-standard widgetsets, so if you are using your own non-standard widgetset, it won't work in half the devices. > And of course the cost of development. How many versions of the app for > different devices/archs/versions must I make? Only 1 > How many different periphal > hardware will I have to support (different GPSes etc). The Android API abstracts most hardware devices, so it is easy to support GPS, regardless of the specifics of the hardware. Accelerometer support is pretty standarized too. The Camera is a huge mess, on the other hand. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
