The hardest part of becoming an Android developer is the steep learning curve - Google doesn't exactly do you a lot of favors with it's documentation there. Ho

The hardest part of becoming an Android developer is the steep learning curve - Google doesn't exactly do you a lot of favors with it's documentation there. However, relative to the learning curve, it's no more difficult to pick up the requisite bits of software and start learning than it is to become, say, a Rails developer (I've done both professionally).