Comments on: Android vs. iPhone; A Developer’s Comparison https://codethink.no-ip.org/archives/188 A blog about coding, life, and other arbitrary topics Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.29 By: Klandas Korman https://codethink.no-ip.org/archives/188#comment-146815 Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:29:07 +0000 http://codethink.no-ip.org/wordpress/?p=188#comment-146815 The difference between the Android Emulator and iPhone Simulator is exactly that: Emulator vs Simulator. Android emulates the ARM CPU and the hardware of an actual Android phone. x86 to ARM translation is very inefficient and slow, with no hardware virtualisation support (unlike x86 to x86 virtualisation like Parallels).

The iPhone Simulator on the other hand isn’t an emulator at all, it merely simulates the iOS environment much more efficiently and directly on x86 without translation.

]]> By: Klemen Nagode https://codethink.no-ip.org/archives/188#comment-37867 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 10:07:13 +0000 http://codethink.no-ip.org/wordpress/?p=188#comment-37867 I developed first on Android, after that on iOS and now I have another project on Android.

I must admit that I have a feeling that iOS development works like a charm (it has some disadvantages but still – it is great).

There is no such great alternative to CoreData on Android (there is liteOrm, greenDao but compared to CoreData those libs are toys. Where is Hibernate for Android? …).

Debugging in Xcode is much faster, writing Unit tests also … I also see that it is much easier to develop with GIT and submodules in Xcode than in Eclipse – there are many more dependencies in Eclipse …

]]> By: Nicolas Raffray https://codethink.no-ip.org/archives/188#comment-13574 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:04:33 +0000 http://codethink.no-ip.org/wordpress/?p=188#comment-13574 Very interesting article thank you. We had an application developped for Android (using Android SDK) and ask the programmer to develop same for Ios, if he charged 2K for the Android he charged 1K for the Ios…is that fair ? the app is very basic, showing a list of products and pictures plus map location. Tks

]]> By: Filip https://codethink.no-ip.org/archives/188#comment-11079 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:45:32 +0000 http://codethink.no-ip.org/wordpress/?p=188#comment-11079 Nice. Thanks for the informal and insightful assessment.

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