I do C# on my day job and I did take a stab a learning xamarin's android sdk but to be honest after spending 3 days learning it, poking around their samples, I

I do C# on my day job and I did take a stab a learning xamarin's android sdk but to be honest after spending 3 days learning it, poking around their samples, I felt like there was still a lot to learn. I ended up going the java route simply because there is more support for it from the community, many many open source controls/libs to begin with and stays up to date with Android releases.