How App Developers Can Switch Impressively from iOS to Android Platform

If you have long years of experience in iOS platform, and planning to switch your technical expertise in the development of an Android app, it might make you feel like you’re entering the Wild West. Things seem more complex and out of your reach. Although, Android app development isn’t more complex than iOS. An extensive idea and award winning expertise of developing mobile apps on one platform can be applied to the other with ease. You may even find yourself enjoying some of Android’s development components more than iOS. Here’s a savvy Apps detail to the top considerations for Android Developers India:

Android Development is More Similar to iOS

Pervasive knowledge of Objective-C and Swift are demanding for iOS professionals. But if you wish to apply your fate once again with Android, you must be completely sure that you want to go through the cumbersome steps of learning a whole new language.

Android is also written in Java, just like Objective-C and Swift. After the long working experience with OOP in iOS, you’ve already set your mind around the buzzword concepts of objects, encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritance. Additionally, you better understand about self, subclasses/super-classes, overriding methods, and delegates in iOS. You’ll still use all of these terms and concepts in the Android platform, only now with Java.

Comparing iOS and Android Syntax and Semantics

If you want to shift from iOS to Android, then it is quite important to figure out what Android elements are useful to replace their iOS counterparts. Thankfully, this majorly comes down to syntax and semantics. Most of the things in iOS and Android has parallel features, either backed in-house or using third party frameworks. Some of those parallels are listed below.

Using Xcode vs. Android Studio

Xcode: The IDE we like and dislike in equal measure. While Xcode has robust features and made outstanding improvements and demand over the last few years. At Savvy, we specially consider on the speed and performance of autocomplete and searching in Android Studio compared to Xcode. Moreover, plenty of small differences between the two IDEs. UI code is developed and written differently.

• Xcode utilizes storyboards and nibs whereas Android Studios uses individual XML files.
• Debugging on the Android emulator is tedious and time taken when compared to the snappy iOS simulator.

Managing multiple Screen Sizes

Handling multiple screen sizes are really painful. When you will explore Android and iOS devices, then you get, iOS developers mostly deal with one screen size, but on the other hand, Android app developers consistently trying to build their apps for many similar yet annoyingly different screen sizes. The final difference between dealing with iOS Auto Layout and Size Classes vs Android XML attributes and the layout file structure leaves us feeling very impressed with Android.