I can corroborate. Developing Android apps is easy.
I got "hello world" to work in about 15 minutes, and was doing asynchronous HTTP Posts of images from the gallery to a remote server the next day, with hooks into the Android sharing system and progress bars and the whole thing. All this while riding in a truck, without Internet, from Salt Lake City to San Francisco to demo to some investors (Android app was a small part of a larger demo).
I hadn't touched java in 8 years. Never done Android development previously. It was brain-dead simple.
I got "hello world" to work in about 15 minutes, and was doing asynchronous HTTP Posts of images from the gallery to a remote server the next day, with hooks into the Android sharing system and progress bars and the whole thing. All this while riding in a truck, without Internet, from Salt Lake City to San Francisco to demo to some investors (Android app was a small part of a larger demo).
I hadn't touched java in 8 years. Never done Android development previously. It was brain-dead simple.