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> Now adapt from one android-based OS to another, e.g. from the Galaxy S "Nature OS" to HTC Sense.

No, no. Play fair: adapt from Samsung Galaxy 580 to the Asus Transformer Pad TF300TL, ensuring that your interface actually looks OK on both of these and on every device in-between -- that includes the Xperia V, the Asus PadFone and the HTC One X.

And no cheating here -- when a customer complains that the application "looks funny" on his phone, don't forget to factor in the price of buying the damn thing.

Have you actually written a real Android application? Maintaining a list of differences between devices (and the hacks you need to make just to make a program written for the same fsckin platform work on all those devices) is a part-time job in itself.




I have written Android applications before, and I still believe that adapting from Samsung Galaxy 580 to the Asus Transformer Pad TF300TL is significantly less work than adapting from iPhone to Transformer Pad TF300TL.




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