The language isn't everything, in fact, it's the least important part of the package. Android has horrible online documentation, iOS has stacks of nicely formatted PDFs and a great online reference. Android tools (Eclipse/Android Studio) are simply horrible, while XCode and related tools are really great. Add to this the performance hit you have from having your code run on a vm and the bloat that comes from using Java itself, and you have yet another reason as to why Android developers are few and far between.
I'll take Android Studio over Xcode any day of the week. I've been working with the Xcode 6 GM for the last few days and it crashes hard on me at least once an hour. I think Android Studio, despite being in beta status, has crashed on me once in the entire time I've been using it. And Xcode's refactoring and code management tools are a joke compared to Android Studio's.
And I'll take Android's layout schemes over managing the house of cards that is auto layout in Interface Builder. If you're lucky you can get auto layout to do what you want with a ton of pointing and clicking but good luck maintaining that mess when you come back to it a few weeks from now. WYSIWYG tools have no place in a professional developer's toolkit, IMO. Leave that stuff to the designers.
Merging xibs and Xcode project files is another hell lying in wait for anybody doing Mac or iOS development on a team.
I'll grant you that the iOS documentation is generally better and certainly the APIs for dealing with multimedia on a lower level are far better on iOS. But for the typical listview-hitting-a-json-api kind of app life is generally easier in Android, in my experience.
