Fair enough, I’m on the other side of the fence, developing for Android, and maybe eventually going to port to iOS if & when I have time & incentive. You’re right, different screen/icon sizes & subtle differences in API do exist, it’s not quite effortlessly to deploy to both.
Mainly where I disagree with you is that I consider that porting to Android has a cost even with Corona. [import]uid: 4596 topic_id: 8219 reply_id: 30456[/import]
Heres my 2 cents. At the moment I have abandoned Android development for the time being I have found sales to be very low. Android people just wont pay for apps.
For example I have released one app in ios which has sold about 5000 it six months and for the android it sold 9 (yep nine copies!) in 3 months. Other apps have sold zero.
Its just not worth it at the moment. If Corona get the ads sorted it might be worthwhile.
Reasons:
Until these issues are sorted the Android market will be second rate and have second rate apps when compared to Apple’s.
As someone once said, “When you expect a free lunch dont be surprised when you are served shit” [import]uid: 11459 topic_id: 8219 reply_id: 30629[/import]
another article http://www.businessinsider.com/android-iphone-market-share-2011-4
I must say though, I’m as leery of all the “android is the future” articles I’m seeing currently as I was of the “apple is the greatest” articles I used to see everywhere. Now, by “leery” I don’t mean I think they are necessarily wrong; I just try not to get swept up because reports tend to come in batches. [import]uid: 12108 topic_id: 8219 reply_id: 30758[/import]
http://xyologic.com/app-downloads-reports/08.09.2011
Another interesting statistics saying it’s not realy worth porting to android 
How arw you guys doing with free apps with ads? Is it worth it? What are the revenues per download numbers? [import]uid: 44010 topic_id: 8219 reply_id: 60927[/import]
I have to say right now, porting to android is a very good idea. The reason has nothing to do with ads or comparative sales but third party stores.
The Nook store for example has only about 400 apps, but up to 5 million devices out there.
Toshiba just launched a store for their Thrive tablets - We’re talking 5 to 10 million devices there. Only a few hundred apps.
The Amazon Kindle Fire is about to be launched.
Samsung have their own app store in some teritories.
Motorola have a new app store in China.
Sony have an Xperia Store.
Huawei have their own store in some teritories.
Korea has strict app rules which means Android Market is not an option.
Right now _everyone_ is trying to take advantage of the fact that third party sores are possible on android. Granted a lot of them may not succeed, but the visibility, limited competition, and subscriber to app ratio on some of these stores is absolutely unbelievable.
To start with at least you could make 10’s of thousands of dollars on a few of the stores. Another perfect example of this is getjar gold. They offer your app for FREE, but pay you $0.20 per download! With less than 100 apps currently available, and most having downloads of 2000 in their first few days and 5000 to 10,000 after a couple of weeks its a no brainer!
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Now a days android Market is booming. so i would like to suggest you to use the cross platform development method. so that you can have a benefit of all the mobile platforms like iOS, Android, Windows Mobile and blackBerry. you can visit http://mobile.alliancetek.com/ for more information on it.
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Now a days android Market is booming. so i would like to suggest you to use the cross platform development method. so that you can have a benefit of all the mobile platforms like iOS, Android, Windows Mobile and blackBerry. you can visit http://mobile.alliancetek.com/ for more information on it.
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