deleted the iOS/Android file management thread because it’s too complex a topic to do justice in like four tweets

‪both iOS and modern Android’s file management are aggressively sandboxed, but somehow modern iOS manages to do it in a more comprehensible way, and they have made things easier for app developers rather than harder‬

the thing I’m actually annoyed at is Android trying to kill the traditional filesystem API (POSIX etc). this is extremely annoying if you are writing a cross-platform app, especially since Android used to let you do useful things with those.

meanwhile hell has frozen over and now iOS lets the user just… move files in and out of apps’ sandboxes. they can just open the Files app and move… files… around. and the app can simply access those files with POSIX APIs.

if only iOS allowed side-loading, I’d make apps for it

in general I think Android is designed to antagonise anyone whose favourite programming language isn’t Java, which incidentally includes almost all game developers.