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Re:IGDA about the Amazon Android Appstore: just say no. on Thursday April 14, 2011 @11:29AM (#2447181)
Amazon requires that you offer all versions of your app for sale on Amazon. So they will be selling your Google Edition as well as your Amazon Edition.
Re:How Github has changed the open source world on Sunday March 06, 2011 @10:15AM (#2294266)
Everything? Does BitBucket support git? I thought it was using Mercurial.

Mercurial is great, but it's not git. It's a hassle to have to learn two ways of doing everything. (Being intimately familiar with git's required these days, especially for Linux and Android programmers. Mercurial's not.)

Re:Ask HN: Best way to write an app for both Android and iOS? on Thursday February 10, 2011 @08:06AM (#2201781)
Depends on what kind of app it is.

Is it a video game (use C++) or a web app (use PhoneGap), or a normal app (write everything twice, 'cause users expect platform specific look-and-feel.)

For what it's worth, two additional cross-platform frameworks you might want to look at are:

Corona (Lua-based, already used for hit iOS games.)

Unity3D (cross-platform 3D game engine.)