Are Android implementations lightweight/superficial?
Recently I found that two feature sets of Android to be seriously lacking. There is also a feeling that other features (motion sensors) are “punt ware”. The biggest short fall has been implementation of Low Energy Bluetooth --- something that runs find on apple devices– is totally lacking. Issue 43473 : Bluetooth Smart (Low Energy) on Android Issue 37525 :android api support for Bluetooth Issue 33371 : Support for Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy Profile on Galaxy Nexus Recently, I did some work with a friend on Near Field Communications. The Android libraries work – sort of, they allow demo code showing simple operations to be written but fail to fully implement the complete specification. Recently I have also been working hard to use the motion sensors and found that they work adequately for game play but if you are wishing to use them for internal navigation , there is great angst in code-ville… Having spent time in Microsoft Developer’s Division of days of old,