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168 points okeumeni | 1 comments | 16 Oct 10 16:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.314s | source
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Mongoose ◴[16 Oct 10 17:54 UTC] No.1798412[source]▶
One thing I'd like to see is Android have more of a presence in universities. It'd give CS students useful exposure to mobile development and allow them to put all of the Java that gets crammed down their throats to good use.
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moondistance ◴[16 Oct 10 18:26 UTC] No.1798486[source]▶
I teach the intro. to HCI course at a Canadian university. The course project includes the design and implementation of a mobile app. I'll be using this article as evidence that my students should develop for Android rather than the iPhone.

Most would prefer to develop for the iPhone, and are taking steps to gain access to Macs and developer accounts for that purpose. This will be a nice push in the other direction.

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1. wallflower ◴[16 Oct 10 19:01 UTC] No.1798583[source]▶
From talking with other developers, developing a good interface for Android is much more painful and costly than developing one in iPhone. I caution you that you might get poor course evaluations because it might be more of a struggle to get something implemented in Android vs iPhone.