for about 8 months or more i used dji go 2.4.3 on a nvidia shield k1 tablet, yesterday i had to update and today i did four flights, on the 1st the app crashed 3 times, on the 2nd the app crrashed 2 times, on the third 4 times and on the fourth the app crashed 3 times. during those 8 months the 2.4.3 crashed 5 times tops, and im a heavy user with over 500 km flown.
this is a shitty update...
im also a software developer and know the pain in the *** it is to develope for android, my apps work like a charm on samsung s6 and only on s6. on other devices they might not look very well, but thats because i have 3 employees on my company and dont have the money to develope for the thousand options available on adroid (processor, screen resolution, os version) on the other hand dji is a billion dollar company with hundreds of employees so your #2 guess is not an option for me. i would expect the app to work like a charm in different devices.
i was using 2.4.3 and booooooom, had to update yesterday...
this is a shitty update...
I'm not taking a position with what DJI did, but as a software developer I can understand why they did it. I would guess that any or some combination of the following reasons tipped their decision into forcing the upgrade.
Android development testing is very different than iOS. With iOS, you have a single vendor for the OS and the hardware and much smaller number of device models. Android is tremendously fragmented between the number of different devices and chipsets and OS versions.
- There was a bug when you set the user's current position as the new home position that they say is fixed in 3.1.3. DJI decided the risk to losing a drone was greater than the fury and annoyance of the users who did not want to upgrade.
- It cost too much to support multiple versions of the app. With Android, they have to test their app on every Android device they explicitly support. Multiple that with each version of Android available for each device. Then multiply that with each DJI model supported. Then multiply that with each DJI model's firmware support. That's just for the current version of the app. If you want to support previous versions, it gets unmanageable very quickly.
im also a software developer and know the pain in the *** it is to develope for android, my apps work like a charm on samsung s6 and only on s6. on other devices they might not look very well, but thats because i have 3 employees on my company and dont have the money to develope for the thousand options available on adroid (processor, screen resolution, os version) on the other hand dji is a billion dollar company with hundreds of employees so your #2 guess is not an option for me. i would expect the app to work like a charm in different devices.
fortunately no such a problems with DJI GO 2.4.3 (which I use)
i was using 2.4.3 and booooooom, had to update yesterday...
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