Re: iphone vs. android drivers?

micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

After nerva ablation and steriod injection didn't seem to work on my
back pain, the doc now wants me to get a spinal cord stimulator.  The
brochure he gave me for the one-week trial is printed on very thick
paper has little text and much white space and nothing about the nevro
HFX app.  I finally figured out that that's because the trial doesn't
use the app, but the "permanent" version has only an iPhone app. People
have been asking for over a year for an Android version. (The treatment
is FDA-approved for 9 years but I don't know how long they've had an
app.)
 
How hard can it be to write an Android version of an iphone app? 

Harder than you think. Plus then the manufacturer has to support twice the
number of systems they supported before.

Is the
connection protocol with the stimulator inside me different?  Would the
stimulator have to be changed too, or would Android phones communicate
with other devices using the same protocol that iPhones do?
 
 
Even if a separate style stimulator would also be needed, how hard is it
to modify the programs to work on an Android phone.  It sounds simple to
me. In PC language,

What is that and how is it different to mobile language?

only the drivers would have to be changed, because
they interface between the software and the hardware. 

You know this how?

Isnt' it already
well known what changes need to be made in iphone vs. android drivers?
(There is a remote control that they probably intend for me to use, but
the app does much more.)

iOS apps are written in Swift and Android ones are written in a form of
Java. There are ways to be able to write to both platforms at the same
time, but you would need to plan that from the start. So, it sounds like it
would require a completely new app for Android.