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The battle of Android developers
Friday, 22 October 2010 07:19

 

Android devandroid-developerselopers faced challenge from the Twitter client TweetDeck, which released a complete version of its UI made for Google's smartphone operating system. When the software beta testing was performed, TweetDeck faced over 36,000 testers who make use of 244 diverse handets, as assures the Tweetdeck blog.

The hardware for this platform is split, and the Tweetdeck competes with over 100 Android versions, stressing that the market for the open-source platform is confused.

From the viewpoint of programmer the development for Android does not present any difficulties, but the problem begin when testing starts. Multimillion project may just stop for this reason, therefore developers give preference to iPhone.

Android TweetDeck 1.0 is presented on the market and in spite of the fact that the development is not effortless and the task of development is challenging enough, the company considers the project promising. Open source environment denotes that software will be obtainable to bigger audience. The representative of the company informed that they had not expected that there are so many custom versions and they think that it is good to have the application functioning on a great number of devices and versions of Android OS.