Differences Between IPhone and Android Apps
May 26, 2010 Categories: Android
Differences Between IPhone and Android Apps
With the official arrival Android, consumers are comparing the apps offered by iPhone and Android. In our technologically savvy age, consumers are making choices based on what are the latest and ideal options that will perform as they expect. When considering smart phones and the services they can provide, the differences between the apps could determine their decision making process.
New to the Android platform are favourite iPhone apps, Facebook and Pandora. The key difference between the individual experiences of these apps is that with Android they have a presence on the home screen. Designed by the Android developers to increase the individual friendly feel, this is a strength in the Android platform.
iPhone has finished some updates of their Facebook application by adding Facebook Events and video uploading that is direct to Facebook. This update has been well reviewed by diehard iPhone users and critics. The Facebook app is one of the most used and most favourite of all of the iPhone apps as social networking sites have grown in popularity.
The Facebook app developed for Android that was created by a collaboration from Google and Facebook has been criticized for absent many of the integral features that the iPhone app has. However, it does benefit from the capability of running apps in the background that the Android platform has. Its home screen widget and Facebook contacts folder are clear benefits and have an assist of use.
User friendly, the widget created by Android app developers is a blank box where you can update your Facebook position and below it lists your friends’ updates as well and is self updating. From this app, Android creates a contact list based on your friends if they have phone numbers listed in their profile. The contacts are well organized in an alphabetical manner. It also lists their profile picture which can be used as an picture that you can press to pull up their phone number in the Android dialer. The functionality of this app is makes staying in touch via Facebook easy.
When comparing the iPhone and Android app abilities for Pandora, they are almost identical. Pandora has proven to be hugely favourite with iPhone users, so Pandora wanted to make it just as successful with Android. The Android app developers created an app that focuses on Android’s capability to run applications in the background. A individual either use the full screen Pandora app or exit to the home screen where a widget can be used to rate songs and control music playing options easily. However, if you need to switch stations, you will need to go full screen to do so.
As the Android roll out are evenhandedly new, new apps and updates to existing apps will be continually available. If you are in the market for a new smart phone and want to see which platform will suit you best, make sure to do research on the apps acquirable and their reviews for both iPhone and Android.
Arnold Ward is an Android App Developer with apps acquirable in Android Market. After working for a few Android application development companies he decided to form a company with 2 other Android Developers.
This article is very true but the amount of spam apps in the Android market drives me nuts!, The problem is the lack of filtering from the Droid app marketplaces. The site I use is RawApps & it is like Netflix because it has ratings, suggestions, user comments, etc.