Over the last thirteen years, I keep hearing the same belief over and over – the Android tablet apps are poor while iPad apps are great. Having owned an Android Acer Iconia A100 tablet twelve years ago and more recently, the iPad Mini 2024 and Pixel Tablet, I still find this claim quite dubious. In reality, app quality is not uniform, but rather, some platforms provide a better experience than others depending on the application in question.
The Use of Applications in Android Tablets: An App Performance Review
When it comes to everyday tasks like browsing the internet, visiting popular sites such as Chrome, Spotify, Netflix, and YouTube, the experience on an iPad is on par with that of an Android tablet. But when I compare my set of applications, Android tablets have always been better than an iPad.
Where the iPad Excels Tablets: The Best Optimized Apps for Creativity and Gaming Are Available in Tablets
Where an iPad shine is the ability to use a desktop-level application with the best iPad OS stock applications built right into it. For creators, designers, and media professionals, apps like Final Cut Pro, Procreate, and Luma Fusion are simply unmatched. Likewise, gaming fans usually prefer the selection offered by the iPad.
Still, get beyond gaming and other creative apps, and the iPad begins to struggle witht its app ecosystem. Major applications such as Instagram and WhatsApp ( in beta) , and AllTrails, are not scaled up for a larger iPad display, which causes images to appear fuzzy and vague This neutrality enables the user experience to be of an app to be rapidantly broken – imagine switching from an app that is perfectly tailored to work with the iPad, to one that is not at all.
Android Tablet Apps: Wide Teacher Choice
Ecosystem of Android applications is also versatile because it has been purposely designed that way. Apps are developed with the understanding that they will be used on a variety of devices with different screen resolutions and sizes. Getting your guide and All Trails are quite functional for Android Tablets, with the exception of Threads that occasionally appears elongated while using the tablet in drag mode.
In contrast to Apple’s barely functional ‘expand’ option, Android 15 now comes with a fullscreen option, which allows most if not all applications to be used on large screens. This flexibility is customarily the downside particularly of Android because it tries to optimize applications regardless of whether they are designed specifically for the device or not.
The iPad has a Drawback: Navigation via Back Gesture is Limited
The back navigation gesture is one of the most annoying parts of the iPad as it can sometimes lack. Swiping, pressing an X, or pressing a button in the Inaccessible Corner are examples of how users can interact with certain applications, with different applications requiring users to perform differently than the X. There isn’t a gesture that almost all can say is universal, which is a huge problem on the large size of the iPad as it requires so much hand movement.
Android tablets on the other hand make it so that every application’s ‘back’ button is the same and allows the user to swipe from any side of the device, not limiting how users go back to the previous page. This advantage does increase convenience, thus explaining why taking android tablets for everyday use is more efficient.
The Argument That Android Tablets Have Poor Apps is Weak
The Idea That all the iPad Apps Work Better by Default Should Not Be Great is the Idea That Has Been for a Long Time. Anything that has to do with gaming and creativity is where the iPad shines, however anything IoT related such as working, reading, browsing social media, and travel planning are all better suited to be done on an android tablet instead.
Android’s app ecosystem is often better although not always, better than that of iOS. The Best Platform for Someone Depends on Their Taste and Use Cases, Not an Ideal the Best utility is finally coming out of the closet.
