Can a mobile app dev here explain to me why updating an app causes its shortcut to be removed from my home screen on Android? Its always the same app, so I assume it's due to poor development?

Stock Android or bloated POS Android?

@xroad I assume bloated as I haven't modified anything

Have you tried buying an iPhone?

Haha! Nice joke :P

Do you mean like an update for the app store or that you made changes and re-run the app?

@linux-colonel so the Nexus phones come with stock Android - other OEMs modify their OS and put in a bunch of useless apps and modifications to stand out from their competitors. If you're running TouchWiz or Sense or other mildly erotic sounding versions of Android that means you have a non-stock version. These versions almost always have crappy bugs in them because they're half-assed shitty forks of the OS.

Source: I used to work for Samsung and I had to Touch my Wiz everyday.

@gashadokuro @Trey50Daniel it's Facebook

Sometimes the app only changed its package names, so it's not the "same app" from Android's point of view...