Android Jelly Bean Vs. Ios 6: A Comparative Study

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Are you planning to purchase a smartphone or tablet in the near future? Not sure which among the iOS or the Android OS platforms will be more suited to your mobile needs and expectations? Apple and Google are beyond doubt the most preferred names in the world of mobile technology; therefore, their operating systems are also the highest selling across the world. Here we provide you a comparative study of the latest versions of Apple’s and Google’s OS platforms, iOS 6 and Jelly Bean respectively, to help you make a choice.

Games – iOS 6 has a larger and better quality gaming library than Jelly Bean. This is the reason why most gaming app developers prefer to use Apple’s as opposed to Google’s latest OS platform version. Though the hardware of Android is more fragmented and thus JB users have more choices, the developers find it difficult to build gaming applications in this type of hardware. The result is that gaming apps running on the iOS 6 platform are of better quality and sell at a higher rate. Also, while Apple already had good quality gaming hardware, it is only in the recent past that Android introduced ...
... its Ouya and Wikipad hardware versions which are gaming specific. Therefore, it is a long way before JB can catch up to the iOS 6 gaming applications quality.

Widgets – The app widgets of Android Jelly Bean are smart; they can automatically resize according to the place where the customer drops them. For instance, if they are dropped on the home screen, they will expand (or contract) according to the space available on this screen. The new features of app widget APIs introduced in Jelly Bean help users to optimize an Android app’s widget content according to the size change of the widget. The JB widgets are indeed more responsive in nature when compared to the iOS 6 widgets as users can even manage the space in the home screen by merely dragging and dropping these widgets. Apple, on the other hand, has not even embraced widgets for the iOS 6 version as of yet.

Content – The App Store experienced a major overhaul after the introduction of the iOS 6 version. The content quality of iOS 6 is thus better than that of Android’s JB version. This enables a user to search for apps in the App Store more easily than in the Android Market. Moreover, searching for apps on Android powered devices is slower than searching for similar category apps on Apple devices running the iOS 6 platform.

Maps – There is no argument about the fact that Google wins the battle against Apple when it comes to the comparison of the Maps app quality. There were extensive reports on the poor quality of Apple Maps running on iOS 6 and the wrong or incomplete information that this application provided. Google Maps running on JB provides the most accurate data on location. The new 3D view feature on iOS 6 also fails to beat the Street View feature of Jelly Bean. In fact, users find it more comfortable to stick to the turn by turn navigation quality in JB, though it means use of a separate app altogether.

The above discussion shows that both iOS 6 and Jelly Bean have their advantages and disadvantages. A consumer’s mobile needs decide the platform they would want to use.

The author is associated with a well known mobile app developer, iPhone app developers in Dallas and Dallas mobile app development firm