does microsoft asks money from developers to publish apps?
what kind of certification process does it include and how is it different from android?
what kind of certification process does it include and how is it different from android?
does microsoft asks money from developers to publish apps?
what kind of certification process does it include and how is it different from android?
You need to buy a developer licence and then you can send as many apps to the windows and windows phone store as you like.. As long as they pass certification, on windows and WP all apps are tested by humans and go through quality control, on android it is done quickly by a machine, therefore all the crap and trojans on android..
Correct Microsoft also as part of the certification run the app through machine checks, but a human layer on top is always 100 times better,, you can see alot of the time when things are shady or wrong even when a machine cant..
I got a virus on my Android phone. I've never gotten any on Windows Phone. I do not know their process. I just know that just happened.
Well, the open framework of permissions for Android does allow for malware to be written, and code test routines can test for malicious intent and trap for it, but it'll be governed by defined rules. A malicious developer, given understanding of the test tool, can contrive code that bypasses those checks and thereby exploiting a vulnerability.
Microsoft moves further by having experienced developers peer review the code and can better judge what the code is actually doing. There may be cases where a developer will be able to create a malicious app using the framework/dev tools provided by Microsoft, but there's very little chance of that passing through the certification checks and being sent to the wild. To date, there have been no cases of malicious WP7 for WP8 apps being released through the Store.
There's plenty of low quality apps of course, but that's a whole different story...