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0 pointsviraptor9y ago0 comments

It's way better than J2ME and lightyears ahead of proprietary OSes. If you think that's not the case, I don't think you remember those times very well. With J2ME it was basically close to impossible to create any app apart from the most basic ones without producer-specific APIs. Nokia, Siemens, Samsung, Motorola, etc. - they all had their own special extensions. Even if some game was released for more than one handset, each make had its own version.

(Although it was possible to write a translation layer - I wrote a nokia-to-siemens translating classes which worked in most cases)

Now you may have issues with versions of Android and which features you can support. You may also have issues with different resolutions. But it's nowhere as bad as in 2002.

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pjmlp9y ago

I did develop for J2ME.

> With J2ME it was basically close to impossible to create any app apart from the most basic ones without producer-specific APIs. Nokia, Siemens, Samsung, Motorola, etc. - they all had their own special extensions. Even if some game was released for more than one handset, each make had its own version.

How is this different from the firmware issues that plague Android?

Have you ever tried to make the support library work properly across Samsung devices, or even worse cheap chinese brands?

Or track down native crashes or memory leaks across Android firmware?

Whoever believes that Android is better than J2ME, never had to make their apps work on cheap or network specific Android devices.

pawadu9y ago

I am sorry, how can J2ME even remotely compare to Android?

With J2ME you couldn't write the simplest application before you ran into the platform specific minefield (example: how to read the D-pad on different phones?). On Android, running into problems is the exception not the rule.

pjmlp9y ago

The fact is that there are fragmentation issues due to firmware bugs.

And it isn't that exceptional, if you look at the bug database, specially in low spec handsets.

Oletros9y ago

> How is this different from the firmware issues that plague Android?

What "firmware issues plague Android?

> Whoever believes that Android is better than J2ME, never had to make their apps work on cheap or network specific Android devices.

This must be a joke

pjmlp9y ago

> What "firmware issues plague Android?

Apparently you lack reading comprehension as I listed two of them.

> This must be a joke

So here are a some more jokes specially just for you:

https://github.com/google/iosched/issues/79

http://www.androidheadlines.com/2014/11/samsung-devices-migh...

http://verybadalloc.com/android/2015/12/19/special-place-for...

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list?can=1&q=firmwa...

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0 pointsviraptor9y ago0 comments

(Although it was possible to write a translation layer - I wrote a nokia-to-siemens translating classes which worked in most cases)

Now you may have issues with versions of Android and which features you can support. You may also have issues with different resolutions. But it's nowhere as bad as in 2002.