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Android: Which is better, develop Android app on a mac or a windows pc?

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What is better, to develop my Android app on a Windows PC or a mac?

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Allan Avatar asked Apr 14 '10 10:04

Allan

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Due to Apple's (to put it politely) "controlling" approach to development, you'll need a Mac to develop apps for the iPhone. So, if you think it's likely you'll be porting any of your Android apps accross to the iPhone in the near future, you might as well save yourself buying two lots of dev hardware and start with a Mac.

Also, emulating a Mac OS on a PC is hard work and against Apples ToS, but you can run a Windows OS natively on a Mac.

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Mathew Avatar answered Oct 21 '22 08:10

Mathew

Because the API docs are not always complete, having access to the Android source code can be of great benefit. Unfortunately, setting this up for Windows is not currently supported by Android, but is for Linux or Mac OS. You can do it for Windows, but there is no procedure explained to do so, and it's not intuitive.

So in the case of easily being able to download and view the source, either Linux or Mac would be a better option than Windows.

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JRL Avatar answered Oct 21 '22 08:10

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