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		oakesm9 on April 7, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Fallacy of Android-First Part of the problem with the APIs being badly documented and them changing is that the entire SMS and MMS stack was an undocumented (deliberately) API until 4.4. Trying to build an app around an undocumented API will always lead to running into bugs and changes in the API.

makomk on April 7, 2014 [–]

Quite, and those undocumented APIs are used to do something that they wouldn't be allowed to do at all on iPhone.

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