Android is pretty good about backwards compatibility. Meaning that, as new devices come out, they still run the old apps very well. An app that you write this year, you won't have to make a lot of changes for it for next year, if you just want it to run. It'll look the same, and it's not going to be updated, but it will continue to run. I think that's good and bad. The good part is you don't have to rewrite your app every six months as the new version of Android comes out. The bad news is that it won't look like the newest version of Android unless you go in and do a little bit of work. I'll cover some of that in my designing session, but that's really the key thing. Apps don't get updated automatically, you have to do a little bit of work. How much work you have to do kind of varies (from app to app and update to update). You don't have to do a lot, but there are definitely some tricks you can do to get the most bang for your buck. |