What percentage of independent developers would you guess have their app available on both iOS and Android?
There isn't a lot of data available, but understandably it looks like only the larger development houses have the resources to publish on both platforms.
One issue is if you promote your app by any means that is not platform specific you potentially have 40% of the audience (give or take) that is unable to try your app.
I would think that a small number of developers have their products cross platform, just by the huge number of games that are released by hobbyists.
that's very small selection to choose from.
There's some more platforms beside those two.
There's some more platforms beside those two.
There's some more platforms beside those two.Whaaaaat? Do you mean people still use those big square thingies in their desktops? Whats next? Are you going to tell me they run software, not apps?
There's some more platforms beside those two.
Yea, I had to vote no as I don't do mobile development.
definitely missing the "I couldn't care less about iOS, Android and the remaining mobile bandwagon" option.
I currently support Linux/MacOSX/Windows 64bit only but might add more later especially Android. I'm not interested in spending money only to upload
to ios store.
My supported list:
Future support list:
Since I write my own engine, I intentionally designed it to be highly portable. But since I didn't write everything from scratch, I use open sourced portable libraries to speed up development time and ensure maximum portability. At the expense of maintaining the engine myself, I am in complete control of my engine's portability.
(*) These are partially, but not fully supported. They're kinda "in limbo" atm.
Shogun.
One of my previous jobs I did porting, mainly from MacOS/iOS to PC/Surface/Windows Phone. What I took away from that was that if the underlying engine/code is relatively cross-platform, the device is the biggest problem. Things like form factors, controls, performance, device lock-down, shader support, etc. I would rather publish to just desktops (or just tablets, or just phones) rather than different devices running the same OS ecosystem. Some publishers don't take into account that the game would have been designed differently if targeted to a specific device and put out inferior ports.
We support iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac. iOS is the only platform we're going to ship on in the near future, as it's the platform where indies can actually make money. The plan is to think about the other platforms out there once some measure of iOS success has been achieved.
Plus at only half a dozen devices to test, it's a fairly gentle way to jump into the market. The other platforms are far rougher configuration-wise.
Since I use Java for programming, iOS is obviously out of question for me. However, I wrote an ad-hoc game platform abstraction so that my app can run on desktop as well as android.
If this is only about mobile development the title (and post) should really make that clear. Even then, you should list WindowsPhone.
If I were writing a traditional desktop game, I'd probably target Windows only, unless it was trivial to support other platforms. Right now I'm running my same codebase on Windows and iOS which is surprisingly easy.
I have to say, after developing in C based languages for a while and using Xamarin studio, I don't think I will ever develop cross platform, their program just makes it so hard to do anything without paying for it.
I do not develop for any operation system or consoles. It is not a scam, I am being true. My providing platform is something totaly different. Gess
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