Re: OT: Android Dev Questions

2012-07-10 Thread James Dugger
My brother has 2 partners that started developing for the iphone. Their clients started screaming for Android versions within a year of the success of their iphone apps, and they can't port fast enough. On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Stephen wrote: > Android is way to popular to disappear an

Re: OT: Android Dev Questions

2012-07-10 Thread Stephen
Android is way to popular to disappear anytime soon. I know eclipse has some built in tools for android sdk and the new emulators help a ton. Mark covered allot but did not mention there are two ways to build an app one is more modular the other being more closely tied to hardware. But getting int

Re: OT: Android Dev Questions

2012-07-10 Thread Mark Phillips
Gmail seems to have a problem with inline answers today, so I will add them here... 1. What is the life expectancy of Android? Will it be around 15 years from now? I haven't a clue. I hope I am around 15 years from now! ;) 2. How hard is it to upgrade a phone to a newer versi

OT: Android Dev Questions

2012-07-10 Thread keith smith
Posted to PLUG, TFUG, AzPHP I wondering about trends. Currently I make my living as a LAMP developer. The market seems strong and lots of main stream apps are built with PHP. So I expect the market to continue to be strong for 10 – 15 years. That is the time frame I am interested in.