Adobe DPS Android custom viewer using Angular

Hi
I have recently developed a custom viewer app for the ipad using the excellent articles and code examples that Derek Lu provided.
This app used backbone as the MVP framework and communicated with Adobe DPS to retrieve folios and information using the provided API.
I have now been tasked with developing a similar version for the Android device and have been able to get hold of example code for the Android device from.
https://www.dpsapps.com/dpsapps/store_configurator/
However this code uses Angular as the MVP framework instead of Backbone - whilst i appreciate there are going to be device specific differences between the IPad and Android which will impact on what can / cannot be done on Android, i wondered if there was any particular reason why the code example for the Android viewer uses Angular over Backbone?
I was hoping to be able to leverage the Backbone code written for the IPad version but when i try to put this on the Android device i seem to recall it either not allowing me (when using the webbuilder) or that nothing seemed to work / appear on the device, whilst the Angular version (freshly downloaded and unchanged - but configured to bring down my folios with the relevant guid) from the dps app store configuration link (provided above) does work.
Additionally i seem to be unable to test the Android Angular version on my desktop in the same way i was the backbone version.
Has anyone else encountered similar problems?
Thanks
Dave

Having spent quite a bit of time scratching my head and googling i ended up finding the answer to this myself - so i thought i best post it to help others out.
What i could not comprehend was why a functioning backbone example on the ipad could not be directly copied across to work on the android device - what transpired was that the backbone example was using an older version of the AdobeLibraryAPI - taken from Derek Lu articles (from a few years ago) whilst the Angular version was using the most up to date version of the AdobeLibraryAPI. I found this mentioned and explained on another forum post:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1622729
so i went to Adobe DPS - Library and Store SDK 2.32 : Class Index : JsDoc Reference and got the latest version of the API, swopped it out and hey presto the backbone version now works on the android.

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