Poll - What smartphone OS to most tabletop gamers use?

[Cosmic_Jive84]

Hi everyone! I'm working on making some apps with a couple buddies for the Pathfinder game system. Anyone have any insight into what the breakdown of iOS vs. Android use is among tabletop gamers? Thanks!

[Liongold]

Droid

[thistledown]

iOS

[DigitalMage]

Android

[iLaifire]

BB10! Seriously I use android which is what I would suggest writing the apps for. While the iPhone may sell more then any single android phone, as a whole Android has a the vast majority of the market share (Mobile OS market share section at Wikipidia)

[LazarX]

iOS.

I have several apps that I've used on both Android and iOS, on almost all of them, the iOS versions have features the Android versions lack. I suspect it's because while IOS authors are generally incentivised to keep up with current IOS specs, Android apps are written for the lowest common denominator of Gingerbread.

[LazarX]

iLaifire wrote:

BB10! Seriously I use android which is what I would suggest writing the apps for. While the iPhone may sell more then any single android phone, as a whole Android has a the vast majority of the market share (Mobile OS market share section at Wikipidia)

Android users however are more reluctant to pay for stuff. They tend to just stick to free versions of apps even if it means living with ads.

And presumably you'd be smart and code it as a universal app so that it would run properly on an Ipad as well.

[Ciaran Barnes]

I use my ipad, but only for a spreadsheet character sheet.

[JohnLocke]

Android here.

[DaBoss]

I cheat, I use Android and my iPod.

[Lab_Rat]

Just pick a programming framework that works for all of them. Something like Enyo (Java Based) works for Desktops, iOS, Android, Windows 8 mobile, Blackberry, WebOS. Do the work once and then just port it out.

[Laithoron]

Android here.

FWIW, I almost always buy the full version of an app if the limited/trial version impresses me enough to want to continue using it at all. Generally, if something is good enough for me to want to use it then I'll ante up. If the app doesn't live up to my needs/expectations however, then even giving it away for free won't influence me to use it. Similarly, I would be unlikely to shell out money for the full version of an app just to see if the full version is less frustrating than the free version.

Happy coding!

[ShaperMC]

Android, and we need more/better/updated apps. For the record I tend to pay for apps. I think that the "android users don't pay" myth comes from the large amount of high school kids with cheap model smart phones.

[Andrew Betts]

Paying Android user here.

[Jeff Wilder]

Laithoron wrote:

Android here.

FWIW, I almost always buy the full version of an app if the limited/trial version impresses me enough to want to continue using it at all.

This is also me.

I'm actually a little surprised that LWD is doing their iOS port of Hero Lab first, because Android is gobbling so much market share.

[Rexfelis4]

iOS here