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We can’t always write about the greener pastures of Android, right? Facebook’s Joe Hewitt – one of the developers responsible for iOS’s Facebook app – switched over to the Android team and his findings were undesirable, to say the least: he called his experiences with the Android platform “horrendous”. It wasn’t just the development tools he was referring to, either, as he specifically calls the OS as a whole horrendous.
I’m trying to do a better job of keeping my opinions bottled up so as to not step on the toes of our readers, but I do just want to say this: thousands of other developers don’t seem to have a problem with pushing out quality apps for Android. While I understand not everything is all a bouquet of roses with Android, it’s not the OS’s or the engineers behind it fault that you can’t grasp it as easily as others have.
His main gripe has been fragmentation – something we can all agree on (and just as frustrating for developers as they have to sacrifice features in one version of their app because too many users are still on obsolete versions of Android). But to call the entirety of the OS horrendous is like calling a piece of candy nasty because you don’t know how to take off the wrapper.
I digress, though, because everyone will always have their own opinion and there’s nothing anyone can do to change that. While one quote from one developer isn’t echoed by the entire Android development community, it’s still notable to point it out when a developer from one of the biggest websites in the world has something to say. The beauty here is that we can just ignore his baseless frustration and move on knowing there are still many great apps headed for Android with or without his “help”.
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This comes from the place where their mobile site is better then the real one? Sorry, but please don’t speak again
On a serious note. I can’t wait to get my DX.
I love these articles because it brings out the losers of the netz. OMGZ, somebody is being negative about my device and it makes me mad. Lulz. You all look like raging toolz.
You all also got trolled hard.
@iRK get the fuck off of phandroid then you ass
LMAO! These comments were hilarious. Tyler takes the cake.
@iRK – see ya, don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
I agree. Android is horrendous. I’ve owned a Droid since last November and I haven’t been pleased with it at all. The 2.1 and 2.2 updates have crippled my phone somewhat, and a lot of the apps are cheap and look like ass. As soon as the iPhone hits Verizon I’m done with Android. Yuck.
You guys have panties on and they are in a twist. Lulzylulzlulz.
Still we have to admint that the fragementation of the Android OS is a desaster. In my first lecture at uni I learned to seperate programs into layers, so u can change some thins but keep others in common over different version.
Now we are talking about an OS, but anyways, Google just messed this up.
I hope desperately that with the 3.0 they kind of ground all future Android versions so developpers won’t have to pay as much attention to compability as they have to now!
oh yeah one more thing…he probably is on steve jobs payroll…i mean cry me a river just learn linux you f-in’ moron!!
Come on, FB is one of the biggest hack jobs on the market. Android is a real OS for java Programmers. It is not a scripting language. I do understand why he has a problem with it
Facebook has one of the worst web experiences ever. I remember being so damned frustrated with Facebook because features would randomly work, the site would randomly be in accessible. You would get random web errors when trying to post comments, upload pix, etc etc.
A developer from Facebook is rather low on the ladder of good developers. I’d most likely as the Facebook developer to clean my toilet than trust him to do any computer related work.
Put an Apple in his mouth and he would fit right in with the Steve Jobs cult!
BTW: The facebook android app sucks HARD. I dont even use it.
this punk ass has sour grapes because the android facebook app is what is horrendous!! he’s just crying like a bitch because his shitty app is getting blasted everyday in the market comment section because their so called updates continue to break the apps functionality and why the hell do i need an app to open up the touch website. get a clue guy you suck as a developer period!!
LOL @ tyler
Yes this guy is a tool.