Best Android tablet for development

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MyTitle picture MyTitle · Sep 14, 2011 · Viewed 28.8k times · Source

what android TABLET is best for development purposes? i have read same questions in this site, but it all about smart-phone development. Thanks.

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manmal picture manmal · Sep 14, 2011

For your consideration: It is advisable to test your apps on low (or lowest) end devices, to reveal performance bottlenecks. An activity might take 2-3 seconds to load on a low-end cheap tablet, or a ListView might scroll jerkily, while your high-end dev tablet will not show this. I have found that for Android, this means using the emulator for bottleneck tests - you might consider upping the provided RAM to 1024MB though, this makes it somewhat usable. Also, you could use a ramdisk for the emulator image.

For day to day development, I would also go with the Galaxy Tab 10, since you come to design your app specifically for dual-core processors. Or, ~100 bucks cheaper, the Motorola Xoom (but hurry up, I read that they already stopped production :)).

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