Why not Android?

Question

Maybe it has been asked before, but why are there no apps for Android? You pay good money for this software and besides, the Android platform is now bigger than the iOS platform  (at least, in Europe it is). Should'nt they be available for both platforms?

Answer 1

Hi Franck,
Thanks for the response and links. As a bit of background information, I'm semi-familiar with android app development (I'm a web designer/ developer (15+ years) and have designed for / experimented with app development over many years) so appreciate the complexities of a wider ranges of problems across multiple devices, but appreciate you mentioning it. I wouldn't have been too critical about the problem with Adobes' Android development if it wasn't for the fact that Adobe originally was the one who developed a bunch of mobile apps a few years back for Android first when there weren't any for Apple devices. Then without warning pulled the plug on them all and all of a sudden developed Apple ones without creating/ keeping Android ones. They continue to bring out new & exciting Apple Apps on a regular basis but no mention of Android, yet keep taking our CC subscription money. If they'd never tried on Android before I would sort of understand, but they already had them and pulled them from the Play store without a reason. That's very odd and seems to heavily favour Apple now with Android getting only low level Apps as a gesture.
The apps Adobe have since released, aren't exactly on the same level as the Apple ones. Most just organise or play with files already created and don't really make use of Android specific features like support for SD card. They seem less than their Apple equivalent. They are also peripheral programs, not the "main" ones. The ones that Create exciting things, not just manage them. Creative Cloud preview is really just a file viewer with some basic functionality built in, Lightroom (playing on the big product name) is an average feature photo adjuster. There are plenty of apps far, far better on the Android store that don't require an expensive CC subscription. We don't have the exciting CREATIVE and useful apps that mobile devices are great for like Adobe Shape, Brush, Color, Illustrator Draw and Illustrator Line, Premiere Clip, Voice, Photoshop Mix & Sketch (we have Photoshop Touch as a separate Paid app that emulates some of the features - I have this app). THESE are all exciting and play to the advantages of mobile devices, when you're out and about and want to capture and be creative on the go. File managers and Basic photo editors are ok to an extent but not exciting at all. If I show my clients the work I've done in the CC app, they say "can we change this" and I go, "no, sorry, its just a pretty picture, we cant do anything else with it". I want to capture, edit, create, do things mobiles want to do, not be chained to a desktop or buy an overpriced Apple device. Creative and flexible is what its all about.
I really do understand where you are coming from with your comments, Franck, and appreciate you sharing them, but yourself as an Android user, I'm sure you feel "unloved" by Adobe because of the lack of communication on why they only have Apple Apps for the above and not Android. If we understood, we might be more sympathetic. If they gave us a rough timeframe and told us they were in development, we'd appreciate its something to get excited about. Still, with Adobes resources, there shouldn't be any excuse. They have the money/ influence/ skills/ man-power to make Apps for both platforms if they really wanted to and communicate this to us.