title: What's the learning curve for Android?
body: <p>What has people's experience been in learning Android?</p>
  
  <p>I'd be interested in how long it takes to get to the point where you're writing your first app, and how the experience compares to learning some other programming API.</p>
  
  <p>I know several professional programmers who have tried to learn Android and failed.  Is it inherently more difficult or larger than you might expect?  But there's a survey here
  <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/07/Mobile-Survey" rel="noreferrer">http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/07/Mobile-Survey</a>
  that claims Android has the shortest learning curve of all smartphone platforms.  I wonder
  how the survey guys could have got such a perverse and unlikely result.</p>
  
  <p>I have my own views and observations on this, which I'll mention as a dialog develops.  I don't want to bias the discussion with my perspective at this point.  Thanks.</p>
  
  <p>Peter</p>