Question

Write a document comparing Android and iOS. In addition, feel free to research iOS design. In this document you will

• compare and contrast Android and iOS development;
• explain how to recreate your Android app for the Course Project in iOS;
• describe how to create widgets, layouts, buttons, text boxes, labels, and images in iOS; and
• describe how to handle events in iOS.

Answer 1

Compare Android and iOS:

Android:

1. Android is one of the most used mobile technologies and is also open source software. It is made up from LINUX family of Operating Systems.
2. With android comes the feature of high customizability which gives users the freedom of customizing almost everything in Android.
3. The developer of the Android Operating system is Google & Open Handset Alliance. It also consists of 100+ languages to be used from.
4. It consists of a File Manager which can be used by the users to know how files are stored in the operating system.
5. The security updates and patches for security vulnerabilities are been taking a time to recover as development is really slow and cannot be managed fast.
6. It consists of native integrations with the cloud storages in partnership with Google and also can be used with tons of applications providing space such as Dropbox, Amazon, OneDrive, etc.
7. There is the use of widgets which makes it easy for users to handle the applications accordingly.

iOS:

• It is a private operating system with the use of open source components and hence, the users don't have any access to use it freely.
• It was made up by Apple Inc. with making use of OS X and UNIX family of operating system.
• The customization cannot be done like that in Android because there is no such freedom in iOS until and unless it is been jailbroken.
• There are no widgets in use except the Notification Center.
• It can operate in almost 30-34 languages in total which as compared to Android is very less.
• It consists of no file manager which makes it tougher for the users to manage the Files in the phone.
• There will be hardly any security updates as encountering problems or vulnerabilities in the phones with iOS as they never give chance to access core part of technologies to any user.
• The complete control over the device is not at all available in the devices which makes the user very confined to what they do in the devices.
• There is a cloud storage integration which makes it easy for us to operate the file and also can make use of other applications providing the same services.

Hence, these are the commons and differences in Android and iOS.