Developers Slowly Losing Interest in Android

Posted: March 27, 2012

[caption id="attachment_9900" align="alignright" width="343"]© AKS - Fotolia.com[/caption]Recent surveys show that interest in Android smartphones and tablets may be waning, and developers are rethinking creating apps for the platform.

The fragmented Android universe may be causing app developers to think twice about bothering with the increasingly popular mobile platform, according to a new report.

Though Android smartphones and tablets are outselling Apple’s iOS devices, a new survey conducted by mobile platform company Appcelerator and research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) suggests that developers are gradually losing interest in the Android platform because the landscape is just too complicated.

According to a quarterly survey of Appcelerator developers around the world, interest in Android phones fell 4.7 percentage points to 78.6 percent quarter-over-quarter, and interest in Android tablets dropped 2.2 percentage points to 65.9 percent during the same time period. The researchers said the declines are close to or within the margins of error, but have been consistent over the past three quarters.

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