Why is Snapchat on Android so bad?

We all know it, and we’ve come to accept it as a plain fact: Snapchat image quality sucks on Android. … The reason behind this is that Snapchat doesn’t actually take photos on an Android device—instead, it basically grabs a screenshot of your camera’s live video feed.

Why is Snapchat so bad on Android Reddit?

Main reason is the huge fragmentation of phones/sizes/versions of Android, and a brutal lack of API (common way of accessing the camera’s features) in Android. Apple has a better API than allows snapchat to use higher quality images in snap.