Android or iOS: Which Platform Has Better Career Option?

It is a very difficult choice to make whether to pick Android or iOS for your career. Both have a huge market, a hot demand for the developers, and handsome packages as well. Let’s make a comparative study of both the platforms and then it will be easy to make a decision. It’s better to take an informed decision instead of taking a random decision and regretting the decision later.

iOS As A Career

iOS basically target the high income yielding nations like Europe and America and hence when it comes to salary, it has attractive packages. iPhone apps tend to earn 75% more than that of Android apps. In terms of development, iOS is easy. iOS has limited devices with limited size fragmentation and a universal UI to comply with. These are some of the benefits of iOS. Now, let’s take a look at the salary range of iOS developers in different locations.

Place	Salary
Texas	$108,622
Washington	$118,205
New York	$121,297
California	$127,756
Maryland	$124,032
Colorado	$107,217
Washington DC	$106,832
Massachussets	$107,464
Arizona	$98,678
Florida	$94,644

You can get hired at top iOS development companies and get the above-mentioned packages. You need to be competent enough with all the skills and expertise and the best way is to get yourself enrolled at the top iOS training center. Another way of making revenue is to take freelancing projects. The average cost per hour is $66 for iOS developers. So, you can generate from two sides, one from your regular job and another from your personal freelancing project.

The developer's community for iOS is also very huge. It has 20,000 passionate members who are actively working on this technology, troubleshooting any issues, and maintaining it. There are Mac forums, iOS developer forums, Apple developer forums, iPhone developer forum, and many others. This will assure you that if any issue arises, there are trustworthy people dedicating their time energy, and expertise in coming up with a solution.

Android As A Career

The perks of choosing Android as a career is that it has the biggest app store in the market with 2.6 million apps. This motivates the newbies at the verge of making a decision to get themselves enrolled at an Android training course. The demand for the apps and so for the developers stays high. This is one of the best reasons to choose Android as a career. Here are some of the benefits of choosing Android as a platform for building your career.

1) Flexible

Android is open source and really flexible when it comes to development and also when it comes to using. The open environment is flexible enough to publish the data through one app and make use of it in a different app. This is not an option for iOS developers. There are restrictions laid on using one app's data in the another in case of iPhone apps. Android developers can develop apps freely as one app will run on any Android device.

2) Adaptability

The students find it easy to accept, learn, and adapt Android as compared to that of the iPhone. They have already studied basic Java during college and hence they don’t have to deal with something totally unknown. Familiarity helps students to get acquainted with the platform more easily. This will not be availed in iOS app development. For iPhone app development, the student needs to learn Objective C or swift and either of them is not in the college syllabus.

3) Revenue From Baby Project

The app submission guidelines for the Google Play Store is very liberal. So, after finishing your final year project, you can publish your app in the store and generate revenue from that. On the contrary, the iPhone app store has very strict app submission guidelines with high licensing fees. This makes trouble for the developer to publish their baby project and make money from it.

4) Top Market

Android is the top operating system in the entire Asian market. It has a 47.55% Asian market share. China is the nation with the highest population have 90% of the people using an Android device. Even the hub for iPhone US also has Android OS leading with 54.4% market share. Hence, there is a high demand for Android developers making it one of the hot career choice.