Over the past 18 months, Google has made significant updates to their Android operating system in an attempt to attract developers who are looking to make high quality applications for the platform. Android-powered phones now make up the majority of the smartphone market, but to the surprise of many, lots of developers still prefer to create applications for Apple’s iOS. Some readers might question how a developer can prefer the more constricted iOS-style development to Android’s open market distribution system, but professionally executed surveys and studies by research companies such as Flurry have revealed a variety of different reasons as to why this preference may arise.
Firstly, although there are now more smartphones running on Android than on iOS, Apple’s iPod Touches and iPads bring the total number of iOS powered devices on the market to nearly 200 million. Despite the recent growth in tablets running Android, there’s no way …
Should Mobile Developers Turn to iOS or Android First?
