Moment will stop developing its Pro Camera app for Android
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Moment has informed users that it will no longer be developing its Moment Pro Camera app for Android (via Android Police). The app isn’t required to use Moment’s lenses, but it provided additional controls for serious photographers. Moment blames the difficulty of making the app compatible across the many different versions of Android made by phone makers.
“We love Android,” said co-founder Marc Barros in an email to Moment customers that was shared with The Verge, “but unfortunately, we don’t have the engineering bandwidth to continue developing this app.”
Here’s Barros’ explanation of the challenges in developing the Android app, from his email:
The short story is that phone makers like to create their own flavor of Android, each with...