{"id":102,"date":"2012-10-05T18:32:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T18:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2012-10-05T18:32:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T18:32:17","slug":"what-could-convince-me-to-develop-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/ios\/what-could-convince-me-to-develop-for-android\/","title":{"rendered":"What could convince me to develop for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an iOS developer, but I don&#8217;t have a religious affinity towards Apple. I do like Apple products. I really enjoy coding in Objective-C. Yes, really. Mainly, though, I&#8217;m an iOS developer because Apple presents the most profitable platform for developers at the moment. With the iOS SDK I can create apps that people will use, and I can earn a living from that creativity. Yeah, I like that. With the iPhone and iPad Apple is an exciting platform for a developer.<\/p>\n<p>But that may not always be the case. I&#8217;m keeping <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+projectglass\/posts\">a close eye on what&#8217;s emerging<\/a>\u00a0at Google (no pun intended). If an SDK is released for Project Glass then I&#8217;ll want to use it. I have no idea whether Project Glass is powered by Android. Presumably, that is the case.<\/p>\n<p>I also would be very interested in developing for Kindle Fire if Amazon had a more robust SDK. I&#8217;m not interested in developing e-books (though as a former librarian I have a tremendous love for books and e-books). I&#8217;m more interested in visual alternatives to long-form narratives and, sadly, the Kindle platform doesn&#8217;t seem to support that very well in comparison to the iPad.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see what happens with Project Glass, but I&#8217;m sensing it&#8217;s time to brush up on my Java skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an iOS developer, but I don&#8217;t have a religious affinity towards Apple. I do like Apple products. I really enjoy coding in Objective-C. Yes, really. Mainly, though, I&#8217;m an iOS developer because Apple presents the most profitable platform for developers at the moment. With the iOS SDK I can create apps that people will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,17],"tags":[18,25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}