Nan Li, ERP/SAP/Mobile network/Japan/Apple/KKK@ifanr
Because of the performance of iOS, it actually has dominated the Mobile App design standards, so Android will follow iOS on high quality App design.
In this situation, if the same quality is required, the man power investment on Android development is 1.5 times higher than that of iOS development. In addition, development environment of Android under Windows is very bad( unstable, the simulator starting time is a big headache). Ironically, our team finally chose MacOS X to develop Andoird applications(Some are using Linux). However, even after changing the platform, some issues still cannot be avoided such as the performance difference between the simulator and the real device).
Finally, Android has some historic problems, such as the problem of Bitmap size exceeds VM budget prior to 3.0. Also because of the problem of upgrade, the team must deal with some problems using low version Android systems.
All these will bring more cost and risk. Still, we need to calculate the cost of testing. There are many manufacturers, many versions and many different resolution devices, they all require plenty of man power.
Quangang Jiang, Outsourcing/Mobile network/Mobile apps/Website management
The picture above describe the cost to develop a project on different platforms and using different technologies.
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Generally, the cost of both platforms is more or less the same.
Cost of iOS : Apple hardware device, salary of employees etc
Cost of Android : Manpower etc
Because salary of Java programmers is relatively lower that that of other programmers. So even if you need 1.5 times more people than iOS, the cost on manpower is still the same. Moreover, if you focus on a few of devices, you will save much cost.
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Note : This article is translated from an IT website called CSDN.net. Source : http://mobile.csdn.net/a/20120322/313432.html
