Android Bugs, Just me?

[mr-nipples]

I used to have an ipod touch 4g which was great and I don't think I ever encountered any bugs with it! Now I've been on Android for around 4/5 months and I can't help but think that there are so many bugs (apps rather than OS). I am running an x86 phone so that may be part of the issue but does anyone else experience bugs quite often?

[MisterZero]

Thing is apps for iOS are made for just one hardware platform. On android, apps have to be able to run on hundreds if not thousands of hardware solutions, tablets phones, with differrent type of touch, mono-, dual-, quadcore processors, and processors from differents brands, which make it hard to make apps that will run flawlessly on every device on the market.

For that said, it's true some bugs may happen, but big company names like EA, Gameloft, Google it self and others are less likely to have apps with big flaws in them.

 

I owned an iPod Touch as well, I had the 2nd Gen. And after iOS 4.0 came out, my iPod became totally useless, it was even slow while unlocking the device, so Android is a better solution because they don't force you to update the device. (I don't really like Apple, but they still have a concept that works very good, one hardware solution, totally locked down, which makes it so that they don't have to care for developping solutions for hundreds of tablets and hundreds of phones.)

 

Known apps, on the Play Store's main page are often great apps that don't have (obvious) bugs.

 

Hope this helped a bit.

[91Chris]

Not enough options. I'm somewhere between rare and often. But Android is NOT my daily driver, i just play around with it.
 

[91Chris]

I used to have an ipod touch 4g which was great and I don't think I ever encountered any bugs with it! Now I've been on Android for around 4/5 months and I can't help but think that there are so many bugs (apps rather than OS). I am running an x86 phone so that may be part of the issue but does anyone else experience bugs quite often?

 

What do you expect? Devs have to TRY and make there apps work across as many devices as possible. They don't tend to be optimised for any particular hardware resulting in instability and varied results across devices. Thats just the nature of the beast fella.

[Inimigor]

I Belive x86 phones will have some issues with some apps wich are not made for them because of the platform itself, it's for ARM processors

 

When the app is big and the developer spends a lot of time developing it, correcting errors and if it's a team after correcting bugs, is unlikely to get bugs;

 

Although when the app is new or the developer doesn't have much time it's more likely to get bugs since the app is generally tested with the phones or VM the developer have in hands;

 

Try the apps in phones based on ARM or those "old known ones" like the Samsung GS3, GNote2, Nexus 4 and some others, if they run well on those phones, probably it's because of your x86 platform.

 

Personally i own a note 2 and almost every app that isn't beggining or in beta or something like that, runs perfectly on my phone.

[mr-nipples]

I Belive x86 phones will have some issues with some apps wich are not made for them because of the platform itself, it's for ARM processors

 

Yeahh it uses virtualisation for ARM apps which isn't ideal

[Inimigor]

Also, developers have to make apps work in a whole bunch of phones, that's probably a reason why some phones aren't compatible with all apps

 

for example, Tegra-designed apps are the best example (i personally don't like that, but... what can i do?) they work flawlessly on Tegra devices, and if you get them on normal devices they proably won't even run. Then they just block for non-tegra devices, only to avoid negative reviews about the app. Reduces risk for the company/developer, but sometimes annoy a little bit the user who want. and helps the one's whom would have issues.

[DrSpychology]

Thing is apps for iOS are made for just one hardware platform. On android, apps have to be able to run on hundreds if not thousands of hardware solutions, tablets phones, with differrent type of touch, mono-, dual-, quadcore processors, and processors from differents brands, which make it hard to make apps that will run flawlessly on every device on the market.

For that said, it's true some bugs may happen, but big company names like EA, Gameloft, Google it self and others are less likely to have apps with big flaws in them.

 

I owned an iPod Touch as well, I had the 2nd Gen. And after iOS 4.0 came out, my iPod became totally useless, it was even slow while unlocking the device, so Android is a better solution because they don't force you to update the device. (I don't really like Apple, but they still have a concept that works very good, one hardware solution, totally locked down, which makes it so that they don't have to care for developping solutions for hundreds of tablets and hundreds of phones.)

 

Known apps, on the Play Store's main page are often great apps that don't have (obvious) bugs.

 

Hope this helped a bit.

 

Similar situation here. I have a iPod Touch 1G, and iOS 3.1.3 on there is absolute shirt. Randomly wiping all my media, but not my apps, broken home button and wifi cover, unstable propietary connection, random freezes and bugs,... Maybe they still support the 4G iPod Touch, but apple products seem to be made to last a very specific period, after that everything breaks down.

 

I also have an Acer Liquid MT S120, have had it for 1.5 years now and it's been mostly fine. Sometimes an app won't install for some unknown reason and I've had this weird bug which makes shortcuts dissapear if I place them on the second row on the left of the homescreens. Anyways, most of these things are resolved with a quick reboot, haven't had any problems otherwise. I have gingerbread on this phone, came with froyo but acer put out an update. I've been nothing but pleased with this phone, and the price was quite a bit lower than the iPod Touch (€130 for the phone, €400 for the iPod)