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Two years is an awful long time to go from iOS to Android.

• veemjeem 14y ago
  Not a long time when you consider how long it took them to write their first release.
  • cpeterso 14y ago
    How long did the initial iOS release take?
• bdcravens 14y ago
  Why did it take so long? Small team, SDK limitations, funding? I can't imagine that porting an Obj-C code base to Java would take as long as it did. (Doesn't matter how long original code base took; that was development, whereas porting code is more "manufacturing") Not trolling, just curious.
  • newhouseb 14y ago
    I'm sure what took so long is a combination of a) ridiculously poor/inconsistent camera API's b) less than satisfactory SIMD support. When I ported some camera stuff from IOS to Android it took me 3X as long due to the need to work around bugs in the SDK. I'm sure they had to do all sorts of nasty things with the JNI to get it performant as well, and I'm not even sure the JNI supports things like the C++ STL yet.