Touch Apps for Android...

As far as I know, Adobe isn't abandoning Android development. The update for PS Touch was released not too long ago (and even quickly fixed an issue with the Camera Fill feature I was having on the Google Nexus 7 2013 when I alerted them to it). Lightroom Mobile is coming. I don't know about Photoshop Mix though (although I'm not sure I care about that one; it feels like a watered-down version of PS Touch).

"Flipping a switch" is not the way I would explain it. e.g., There are Samsung users that are having problems with certain effects in PS Touch that only affect them. (Why, I don't know; graphics processor used, maybe?) Android has a huge swath of devices and hardware setups vs. Apple's set-in-stone hardware. Not saying Apple is better or worse; just an observation. Personally, I love Android.

They've recently released the Creative Cloud app on Android, however I have doubts Adobe is committed to offering the same apps they do on iOS to Android (Lightroom Mobile, etc.)

Everyone keeps saying Lightroom Mobile for Android is coming. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no evidence of this anywhere and this rumor has been going on for well over a year now.

My dissatisfaction with Adobe is that they charge all customers the same while only providing a fraction of the apps it provides iOS users to Android. So they get Android users money and spend it on iOS development.

Honestly, Android's device fragmentation should not be an excuse. These programs are memory intensive and running them on lower specced devices and Android versions bellow KitKat 4.4 would result in a poor user experience. As such, one could expect Adobe's Mobile user base to have reasonable expectations. Around 25% of Android users are already running KitKat and that alone is significant.

I don't think it's right we get charged the same, yet we cannot take advantage of the same mobile apps...despite their execution being possible on both platforms.

What do you guys think?

sebasll wrote:

 

They've recently released the Creative Cloud app on Android, however I have doubts Adobe is committed to offering the same apps they do on iOS to Android (Lightroom Mobile, etc.)

 

Everyone keeps saying Lightroom Mobile for Android is coming. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no evidence of this anywhere and this rumor has been going on for well over a year now.

 

My dissatisfaction with Adobe is that they charge all customers the same while only providing a fraction of the apps it provides iOS users to Android. So they get Android users money and spend it on iOS development.

 

Honestly, Android's device fragmentation should not be an excuse. These programs are memory intensive and running them on lower specced devices and Android versions bellow KitKat 4.4 would result in a poor user experience. As such, one could expect Adobe's Mobile user base to have reasonable expectations. Around 25% of Android users are already running KitKat and that alone is significant.

 

I don't think it's right we get charged the same, yet we cannot take advantage of the same mobile apps...despite their execution being possible on both platforms.

 

What do you guys think?

It definitely hasn't been a year since Lightroom Mobile was announced. When did it get released for iOS? June? I remember reading about it eventually coming to Android but can't remember which site I read it off of.

It's not that Android is hard to develop for. (From all the devs I talked to, it really isn't.) I think John Nack (who left Adobe for Google back in February) was one of the people behind the initial "touch apps" push with apps like Photoshop Touch and Kuler, which itself was actually a $9.99 paid app before it went defunct. (If I also recall, the paid Kuler app was pulled down from the App Store at the same time only to pop up later as a free app.) I'm thinking they had to do a reset in that regard (e.g., Kuler being re-titled, "Color").

It's not like Adobe's kept us totally in the dark. They did release the Creative Cloud app. Photoshop Touch was on Android first before iOS by months if I remember right. (I was one of the first to dive in with version 1.0.)

It's a lot like how Ambient Designs has a version of ArtRage coming for Android but can't say exactly when, though they will say it's soon. (And it's been quite awhile since they had a version for iOS.) It's just the nature of business.