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deleted the iOS/Android file management thread because itās too complex a topic to do justice in like four tweets
āŖboth iOS and modern Androidās file management are aggressively sandboxed, but somehow modern iOS manages to do it in a more comprehensible way, and they have made things easier for app developers rather than harderā¬
the thing Iām actually annoyed at is Android trying to kill the traditional filesystem API (POSIX etc). this is extremely annoying if you are writing a cross-platform app, especially since Android used to let you do useful things with those.
meanwhile hell has frozen over and now iOS lets the user justā¦ move files in and out of appsā sandboxes. they can just open the Files app and moveā¦ filesā¦ around. and the app can simply access those files with POSIX APIs.
if only iOS allowed side-loading, Iād make apps for it
in general I think Android is designed to antagonise anyone whose favourite programming language isnāt Java, which incidentally includes almost all game developers.
s/Java/JVM-based/
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@hikari more like kotlin nowadays, at least from what I've seen
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