TweetDeck CEO: Android development is not a nightmare

October 19, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

Just a few minutes after posting about Andy Rubin’s comical dismissal of Steve Jobs’ anti-Android speech yesterday, readers pointed out another affected executive who has taken to Twitter to shut down Jobs’ assertions about Android.

Earlier this morning, TweetDeck Founder/CEO Iain Dodsworth responded to Steve Job’s comments that made it seem as though Android development was a nightmare because of the fragmented operating system. Jobs cited TweetDeck’s recent stats highlighting the many devices, resolutions, and custom ROM’s running TweetDeck as a negative. But when TweetDeck first shared those stats, the company’s perspective was “it’s pretty cool to have our app work on such a wide variety of devices and Android OS variations.”

CEO Dodsworth further clarified that TweetDeck is not troubled by Android’s diversity and feels that Job’s use of his “Twitterdeck” app was a poor example. “Did we at any point say it was a nightmare developing on Android?” Dodsworth rhetorically asked. “Errr nope, no we didn’t. It wasn’t.”

Dodsworth later revealed that there are only two employees working on the Android app, which shows “how small an issue fragmentation is.”

Twitter.com via Business Insider [Thanks, everyone!]

android development, android os, development, fragmentation, TweetDeck

One Comment

Lars Didriksen says:

October 19, 2010 at 3:46 pm

actually the diversity is what every web designer has struggled with for ages, its part of the job and you learn to deal with it. Its no different for coding for android devises, and its really not that hard, I mean come on. This new pampered generation of "coders" who are used to WYSIWYG editors, and babied SDK's really have to go back to school and look at some code. I can tell you programming for iOS IS a nightmare, its SO d… restrictive. Opposed to developing for an open system, where you can make the code work for you, and make some really impressive results.

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