Benefits of Android First
- Start at a fragmented market
- Optimise for many different screen sizes
- Requirement of high performance
- All assets are created
- Port to iOS is EASY
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iOS first
- Consistency
- All software, no hardware buttons
- A grand total of 21 different devices
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Benefits of iOS first
- Fast development
- Easy testing
- Consistency across devices
- Fixed width
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Ideal situation
- Develop for Android first
- Keep iOS on par per-feature
- Cross platform development!
- This is not how we implemented it at Peerby
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Lessons Learned
- Low end devices force choices
- Styling of pages just like the web
- Titanium + android is unpredictable
- ti clean is your friend
- Genymotion!