Learn Android or learn iOS?

Learning Android or opting for its most direct competition, iOS, is one of the most current and interesting topics in the world of programming. And the fact is that we have experienced such spectacular changes on a social level, such as the fact that instead of looking at mobile phones with astonishment – ​​yes, years ago it was unthinkable to talk on the phone outside the home! – today what is surprising is that someone say they don’t have any Smartphone/Iphone or they don’t need it.

In this context in which smartphones are almost essential and unleash passions, both the general public and developers live their particular love story with their favorite operating system, since anyone with a creative idea can earn more or less money with it by transforming it into applications or Apps. The funny thing is that everyone defends learning android or doing development courses for iOS with a rather subjective point of view.

We are specialist trainers in programming courses , and we help you learn Android but we also offer you the necessary courses to develop for iOS . That is why we intend to provide you with a neutral point of view on this topic to guide you a little on the differences that exist between the two mobile operating systems and so that you can consider which languages ​​can be most useful to you to develop applications for both.

Android, Google’s operating system

The first option we are going to consider is learning Android. Loved and hated in equal parts, the fact is that it has taken the most important share of the market for years. Its use is widespread in both mobile phones and tablets.

Choosing to learn Android has several advantages:

1. It is an open source system and can be developed for free
2. Learning android will provide you with a huge market where you can sell your applications and with a good idea you will be able to monetize your creations.
3. Enjoy already developed open source libraries that you can use for your projects.
4. It is programmed in Java with the help of a software development kit or SDK, but there are also IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) that facilitate the task, such as Eclipse . You can also use more agile alternative languages ​​like C++

iOS, Apple’s perfectionist (and closed) system

Let’s now go for the opposite opponent of the Android Robot. iOS is a completely different system, both in philosophy and programming. Some of the advantages it has over Android are:

1.  iOs is paid (You will have to pay an annual fee if you intend to develop with this operating system) but it has a good consideration : being a closed system, Apple commands its product and nobody can appropriate it, being the company the one that decides each year the moment to roll out your updates uniformly . In this way, problems due to update incompatibilities are avoided and as a developer you will have one less problem to take into account.
2. It is true that it has a smaller market in relation to the sale of applications, but it also has its positive side: it is famous for having fewer security problems, less app piracy, and greater quality control, for which it is said that it is you can make more money by selling products developed for iOS .
3. This operating system is used for iPhone, iPod, Apple TV and iPad and is programmed in Objective C language with the X-code development environment

So… Is it worth learning Android or is it better to learn Objective-C to develop on iOS?

Well, the dilemma is still a matter of taste, but there is one thing to keep in mind: the two systems have a large number of ardent followers, and between the two they take the largest share of the mobile application market , so… why not learn Android and Objective-C and develop for both platforms at the same time? In fact, there are already development tools   capable of compiling the same code on multiple platforms so that you can sell your apps on GooglePlay and the AppStore without having to choose.