I think people see it as “no effort to allow android to catch up” because new features have been coming out on iOS whilst Android is trying to catch up.
The android team is growing and they are catching up fairly quickly. I would expect it to be a negligible difference between android and iOS when the FULL current accounts are released
Are Monzo going to deal with this soon?
The very short and honest answer is
#Yes 
I am looking forward to it. I wonder how long we Android users will have to wait? There are more android devices out there than IOS devices - not a lot of people realise that.
That may be so, but there are more iOS Monzo users than Android Monzo users. Not an excuse, I know.
The Android app is aso not as old as the iOS counterpart. Not being forgotten though.
I hope Monzo aren’t going to delay adding frippery and fun to the iOS app to spend time bringing essentials up to date on the android app.
I doubt it. Two different OSs. Though I guess the iOS releases could slow up a little…
As I understand it, there are two separate development teams for iOS and Android, so don’t imagine that will be an issue.
and one big reason for that was only iOS users could join at the start due to failure to launch Android simultaneously, and those iOS users got their iOS friends to sign up. Android users have been catching up, but if the current account starts initially on iOS only we are going to have a repeat of Android users being 2nd class citizens and fobbed off by the ‘we hope to close the gap and get parity’ line for months.
I’m sorry, but that’s completely not how my nearest circle looks like. Out of +15 people I personally dragged into Monzo, iphone/android split is fairly even, 45/55 (though Apple fanboys are indeed louder).
We only know that preview of current accounts is only available for iOS, until full launch happens, state of Android app is like Schrodinger’s cat 
. I can understand why you might feel that it will cause delays to Android, but we won’t know until preview period ends.
I personally feel (my own assumption) that preview period for iOS is actually used to polish last bits of Android app, so it is ready when we need it . If android app is seriously not ready, then it won’t be ready in 2 or 3 months either and I find it absolutely not believable.
When Mondo first started out, market research happened. 70% of those interested in Mondo were iOS users. That’s why the focus at the start was on iOS. Now Monzo is here, that has shifted and there are more and more Android users joining, along with iOS.
It makes the best business sense to build for what folks have, and that is why this research was carried out at the start.
I’m probably completely wrong here, but I thought that Android used a Java VM so that the Apps created could have a unified base platform. Meaning it’s not 10,000 different phones, but a few different base images, similar to Apple have a few different base phones.
Totally makes sense. But please be careful of the self fulfilling prophecy. I, as an Android user, don’t feel comfortable recommending Monzo because of the lack of features. It’s a much harder sell than the iOS App which has lots of features you can literally show.
No, not really. Yes, the Java is the same on all devices but you need to target different APIs based on what is available and different UIs based on the phone size and specs.
I’m at the current account launch & Tom’s just mentioned that he’s switched to Android to make himself angry that the app’s not at parity with the iOS app yet 
To add to this, I personally approached Tom and asked the “real” reason why he switched, and he said “no really, I switched so I can use the Android app and see the differences myself and prioritise them”
Also as pointed out above, Android started late, it will catch up by the end of the year.
I was just wondering, what are the main features on iOS that android is missing?
Also, with the current accounts being rolled out, should android users not expect any more significant updates to the current app until the current accounts are fully launched? (I hasten to add that today’s android update was very welcome).
I should add here that it’s not just Tom that switched, a few other members key of staff also did the same. Many of the COps team are also on Android and the design team now spends a large amount of their time using Android devices.
No, it’s more difficult. Building for 100 devices from 10 manufacturers is harder than building for 5 from 1.
This isn’t true, or at least is pretty neglible. Unless you’re interacting with lower level nitty gritty stuff which tend to be implemented differently like cameras, the code you write is going to work on the majority of modern phones. This means that UI facing things tend to be very low effort to work on different devices.
As for screensizes, you tend to only need to make two versions of relevant UIs: one for a phone, and one for a tablet. Hell, you could just have one UI and it would work on both (but space wouldn’t be that optimised). Android’s layouts automatically grow to fit the screen, so you don’t have to design for each screen like you’re implying.
They’re probably just spending a lot of time on future infrastructure, and ensuring security, rather than implementing public facing UI features.
Source: am professional Android developer (who’s expanding into iOS currently)
Feels like the iOS / Android disparity is growing not shrinking
Don’t worry, we’re getting iOS features everyday
This is quite possibly all the Android team did for a whole month for KYC purposes and some devices still find ways to fail. 