Oh dear...

[InfiniteStates]

I've just started looking into Android development, because I understand that there are only about 150 apps on the store. Is this true?

Any way - I've been led to believe that Android apps are developed in Java. Oh my...

Although it does support OpenGL which is something I guess. But I doubt you'll see an Android Unreal Engine anytime soon...

[Symonator]

150 lol try a few 000000's on that lol.

[InfiniteStates]

Yeah, I was suspicious of the figure.

Still - the piece of shit is Java. Fuck that. Been there - done that. In fact, the game I just put out on iPhone was converted to C/C++ from Java for MIDP2.0 devices

[theENIGMATRON]

Well from when i was working and looking at it,
It does not have to be Java....

Only reason people tend to Code in Java for Android is it can be ported to IOS quite easy.

As C is a Pain as you need to Alter some C for Objective-C and Objective-C cannot be used in Android,


But most apps are in Java for that purpose,
This is what i was told from a few different developers when i was doing my research before hand.

And the number of Apps and android is insain, I would say maybe more than the App store on IOS.
But the Quality of is nothing in comparison

[InfiniteStates]

Whatever the base language, Android development still suffers from the same problem that old MIDP phone development and PC development has - unknown hardware configuration.

Even the Android API spec says an Android device is guaranteed to implement the API, but not all API features may function correctly. And trying to test on as wide a range of hardware as possible is fucking expensive, and tedious - for very little return.

EDIT: just found this quite interesting back-n-forth between pro-C and pro-Java. They're developers, so it's all very civil