Spotlight: Android

2012-06-23 00:00:00 2012-06-24 00:00:00 America/Toronto Spotlight: Android The Spotlight event series concentrates on relevant tech topics for one day, allowing interactive professionals and students to build up their skills at a low price point with a minimal time commitment. The third in the series puts a spotlight on Android. This one day… Toronto FITC Toronto

Presentation


Overview

In today’s mobile market, Apple is arguably the app king. Companies are frequently building their apps for iProducts first and everything else second. However, Google’s Android has now surpassed Apple in terms of number of units sold, and companies are starting to take notice. This has created a trend of building apps for iOS first then porting ideas over the Android second, often leaving it to developers to figure out how to translate over iOS design patterns and practices. In this presentation, James Halpern will go over some common design and app flow problems developers face when asked to build iOS products on Android.