With both IOS and Android having over one million apps available it makes them about even. The thing that separates them is not how many or what kind of apps they offer its actually how easy it is to program and get the final product on the app market. Android apps are programmed using C, C++ and Java. It is an "open" platform; anyone can download the Android source code and Android SDK for free. Anyone can create and distribute Android apps for free; users are free to download apps from outside the official Google Play store. Sense there is such a wide variety of devices out there for android, it gives the developers the option to make really power hungry apps for top notch devices. IOS apps are programmed differently than android using Objective-C instead of java and C. This makes IOS harder to program for because most people who program, learned how to with C or java so that is what they are most comfortable
With both IOS and Android having over one million apps available it makes them about even. The thing that separates them is not how many or what kind of apps they offer its actually how easy it is to program and get the final product on the app market. Android apps are programmed using C, C++ and Java. It is an "open" platform; anyone can download the Android source code and Android SDK for free. Anyone can create and distribute Android apps for free; users are free to download apps from outside the official Google Play store. Sense there is such a wide variety of devices out there for android, it gives the developers the option to make really power hungry apps for top notch devices. IOS apps are programmed differently than android using Objective-C instead of java and C. This makes IOS harder to program for because most people who program, learned how to with C or java so that is what they are most comfortable