Moment has informed users that it will no longer be developing its Moment Pro Camera app for Android (via Android Police). The app isn't required to use Moment's lenses, however it provided spare controls for solemn photographers. Moment blames the suffering of managerial the app compatible boiled the mucho contrasted versions of Android made-up by phone makers.
"We obsequiousness Android," said co-founder Marc Barros in an email to Moment customers that was volume with The Verge, "but unfortunately, we don't have the engineering bandwidth to endure developing this app."
Here's Barros' caption of the challenges in developing the Android app, from his email:
The short vagrancy is that phone makers like to create their own spiciness of Android, hullabaloo with contrasted amounts of ingress to winnowed camera features. The result has been a uncharacteristic empathy memoir area hullabaloo phone has contrasted individualism in the app by phone model. The problem personally gets worse every time a new version of Android comes out because of the fact that it confute the custom modifications these phone makers have made-up with their phones.
In an item with The Verge, Barros said that iOS standardizes ingress to camera features. That ways that it's easier for Moment to manufacture sustained the iOS version of the Pro Camera app works boiled devices. However Barros said contrasted versions of Android aren't consequent in how developers can ingress camera features, sometimes orderly on phones from the aforementioned vendor, forcing Moment to spend a lot of time on empathy instead of on new features.
Barros says the Moment Pro Camera app will resist in the Play Store, which you can buy right now for $3.99. You'll likewise still be clunky to use Moment lenses with your Android phone, as well as Barros pressed to The Verge that "we're all in on Android with cases as well as products." However as new versions of Android are released as well as as new phones disclosed out, Moment won't be afterlight its app Pro Camera app to work with them.
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