People say it’s the price (to develop), but it’s not IMO. It’s the community. Lots of developers use iOS (in the US), but in my experience, power users who develop FOSS in their free time have a high propensity to be Android users. There’s just so much more freedom in the platform.
Add this to the fact that outside of the US Android is more popular as the device costs are lower and there is less blind brand loyalty due to that, so developers in those countries focus on the platforms they use.
I believe the latter was the case with the current FOSS weather app I use (Breezy Weather).
Update: This is personal experience, but I’ve never met a free-time FOSS app creator (or contributer) that didn’t develop for the device they use. And I’ve met a lot of them.
Final edit: Weather apps may be biased with age. With React Native and Flutter taking over new apps, platforn agnostic apps may slowly go away over time. But which FOSS dev wants to build a new weather app when there are so many (for Android) already?
People say it’s the price (to develop), but it’s not IMO. It’s the community. Lots of developers use iOS (in the US), but in my experience, power users who develop FOSS in their free time have a high propensity to be Android users. There’s just so much more freedom in the platform.
Add this to the fact that outside of the US Android is more popular as the device costs are lower and there is less blind brand loyalty due to that, so developers in those countries focus on the platforms they use.
I believe the latter was the case with the current FOSS weather app I use (Breezy Weather).
Update: This is personal experience, but I’ve never met a free-time FOSS app creator (or contributer) that didn’t develop for the device they use. And I’ve met a lot of them.
Final edit: Weather apps may be biased with age. With React Native and Flutter taking over new apps, platforn agnostic apps may slowly go away over time. But which FOSS dev wants to build a new weather app when there are so many (for Android) already?