iPhone: the most efficient platform for games – Generation NT

It is not for nothing that the Apple Store still offers today a lot more games than the Google Play Store: iOS is definitely a cut for gaming applications platform. The situation is paradoxical then that in terms of volume, the mobile market is largely in favor of Android.

The reason is simple: by mastering end to end its platform both hardware and software, Apple offers a much more robust Android ecosystem, and it is more profitable for publishers to leverage smartphones whose compatibility with their software will be 100% assured that Android, which operates from an incredible difference of smartphones with equal performance from the lowest to highest.

If in practice the powerhouses Android like the Galaxy Nexus 5 or S5 deliver excellent performance in basic graphics, they bow quickly in tests more advanced APIs OpenGL.

Even the Moto X new version does not manage to come and compete with the iPhone 6 in the most demanding graphics applications. Enough to give a bitter taste to those who criticized the Apple smartphone for its lack of memory, lack of “heart”, or a lower operating frequency than the best Snapdragon SoC the time …

The notable difference is explained by the use of manufacturers of Android smartphones in Mali GPU core bit optimized in the most demanding applications, but largely democratized at terminals to a matter of cost.

Faced with a host of different hardware configurations, and developers are struggling to optimize their software. Thus difficult to publish an app on the Google Play Store, knowing that it will not be compatible with half or more of the devices on the market … therefore a major part of the games have their benefits drawn down to s’ appeal to the greatest number.

A the puzzle which find themselves facing developers who want to develop Android graphics this pretty well. Not to mention the OS fragmentation, fragmentation devices is obvious … It’s hard to please everyone in these conditions …