Switch from windows phone to Android?

[gdmin]

One concern that I do have with Android is security issues, such as malware attacks....is that really a big problem? I've hears that one reason android isn't used in enterprises is bc of security issues. Thanks in advance.

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Download only from playstore and you'll be fine.

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[andrphoid]

Which is more efficient? For example, one thing I hate about ios is the fact that you have to go in apps to obtain info, hit the home button, find the back arrow button to go back, "X" button to close apps, etc. I just find this so inefficient. Where as android and windows you have widgets and live tiles to portray info and better yet, with widgets, you can control the app w/o needing to open it (i.e. Controlling sound and switching tracks on Music players, answering texts and emails).

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[Rukbat]

Once you learn the particular phone, it's amazing how fast you can open an app, change something, get some information and close the app. I've seen people do it on an iPhone as quickly as I can do it with an Android widget. (Then again, my daughter texts at about 60wpm. I'm lucky if I can hunt and peck on a phone, but I can type faster than she can on a real keyboard.) What you're good at you're efficient at. It's more the level of experience than the phone.

As for security, if it's connected to the internet, it's not. A phone, a desktop, a washing machine. They haven't found a way to send a virus down a powerline (yet, as far as I know), but they used to say that Linux was secure - until someone almost brought the entire internet down. If you want security, write it on paper and burn before reading. Then mix the ashes with water and stir.

If a good Windows phone had come out before Android, I'd probably be on a Windows phone (I can write Windows apps, I can't write Android apps yet), but everything I do when I'm not at my desk is Android, so I'm kind of committed to it - and I can find an app for just about anything I want to do.

 

[salmanahmad]

Once you learn the particular phone, it's amazing how fast you can open an app, change something, get some information and close the app. I've seen people do it on an iPhone as quickly as I can do it with an Android widget. (Then again, my daughter texts at about 60wpm. I'm lucky if I can hunt and peck on a phone, but I can type faster than she can on a real keyboard.) What you're good at you're efficient at. It's more the level of experience than the phone.

As for security, if it's connected to the internet, it's not. A phone, a desktop, a washing machine. They haven't found a way to send a virus down a powerline (yet, as far as I know), but they used to say that Linux was secure - until someone almost brought the entire internet down. If you want security, write it on paper and burn before reading. Then mix the ashes with water and stir.

If a good Windows phone had come out before Android, I'd probably be on a Windows phone (I can write Windows apps, I can't write Android apps yet), but everything I do when I'm not at my desk is Android, so I'm kind of committed to it - and I can find an app for just about anything I want to do.

What you said about security is totally spot on.

But I wanted to pitch in about writing apps. I took an online course over at Channel 9 MSDN on developing an app for Windows Phone using Visual C#. It was pretty awesome but being the procrastinator that I am I didn't finish it.

I would love to find a similar app development tutorial on Android. I really want to make a faster Facebook app, if Facebook's API allows it.

 

[Rukbat]

1) Any app anyone writes for Facebook would probably be better than the one Facebook gives us. (Talk about Hoovering [to keep it clean for a family forum].) I have to run my phone on my router's guest account to get anything to load during my next few lifetimes. (My browsers work on the regular account, so ...)

2) Android is Java. Java is C-ish enough that if you know C#, and you remember that not everything in Java is an object (scalar variables are just scalar variables), you should be able to read Java pretty easily.

It's knowing the Android environment - what you have, the APIs, the classes available, etc. I've written tons of code in Java, but right now my best effort in writing an Android app would probably make the Facebook app look great. (I've modified one of the sample apps - trivially - and it compiled, so I know that I can compile an Android app - and that's about as far as I've gotten.)