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Here’s Why Designing Android Apps Is So Hard

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Posted on 24 May, 2012 - 09:53 by ck in

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OpenSignalMaps visualized user data from nearly 700,000 Android devices, and found mind-boggling fragmentation. If you’re designing Android apps, this is what you’re up against.

"Android fragmentation" has become something of a tech buzzphrase, as Google’s smartphone operating system gets more popular and more device manufacturers start using it in different ways. What is it like to design an experience for a fragmented app ecosystem? The makers of OpenSignalMaps, an Android app that gauges local cell phone signal strength, wanted to know what they were dealing with. So they spent six months gathering data on their users’ devices, and then parsed it into some rather jaw-dropping infographics. Sure, you knew Android was fragmented. But did you think it looked like this?

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