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what android TABLET is best for development purposes? i have read same questions in this site, but it all about smart-phone development. Thanks.
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We highly recommend the iPad Pro, the Galaxy Tab S8+, or Microsoft Surface Pro 8 if you want a powerful option that can handle most tasks. However, any of the tablets on our list would be a great choice for coding.
After 2021, tablets will enter a period of decline, with the steepest decline expected in 2022 and more modest decline through 2025. Desktops will also enter a period of decline starting in 2021 and continuing through 2025.
For your consideration: It is advisable to test your apps on low (or lowest) end devices, to reveal performance bottlenecks. An activity might take 2-3 seconds to load on a low-end cheap tablet, or a ListView might scroll jerkily, while your high-end dev tablet will not show this. I have found that for Android, this means using the emulator for bottleneck tests - you might consider upping the provided RAM to 1024MB though, this makes it somewhat usable. Also, you could use a ramdisk for the emulator image.
For day to day development, I would also go with the Galaxy Tab 10, since you come to design your app specifically for dual-core processors. Or, ~100 bucks cheaper, the Motorola Xoom (but hurry up, I read that they already stopped production :)).
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