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Extremely easy. You can quite literally start from not knowing anything about Android development and, in an evening, have a simple app up in the Marketplace.

• Zev 16y ago
  ...and before anyone responds with "well, that's just going to lead to a bunch of bad apps in the store," I ask you to count the number of fart apps in Apple's App Store. Though I'm sure they're all quality fart apps... I typed "fart" into iTunes and hit search. 180 results per page and it gave me 5 pages of results. Thats 900 apps[1]. But, not all of the apps are fart apps. There's apps like "Vuvuzela Joke" or "Nerdoids"[2] that likely have "fart" as a keyword. So, the number is slightly less than that. And thats with the irritation of codesigning and iTunes connect. I don't want to so much as think about how many fart apps there are available for Android, if its that much easier to get an app into the app store. Although.. it might be a lower number since the (paid) Android app store isn't available in as many countries.. But, you probably didn't expect me to go and count, did you? ;) 1. In the US app store. 2. Picked at random from page 5.