[gsmiro]

> It's just a mess. I'd expect a relatively painless experience: install dev tools, start a new project, build and go! But no, it's jumping through hoops, requires understanding a myriad of different SDK/platform versions and a constant churn in keeping your apps up to date with new versions while trying not to break backwards compatibility.

> And a big part of this mess comes from the fact that device manufacturers and mobile operators are unwilling to keep old devices up to date (and Google can't force them, while I think they should with some kind of licensing contracts), leaving customers exposed to security flaws while keeping the developers churn high with multiple versions to be supported.

Is it only me or there are tons of similarities to C# and the .Net environment?! More and more I feel Google just ends up with the same solution MS came up with in order to handle the diversity of vendors using its platform and their conflicting interesse.

[retox]

C# is as easy to get started with as I've seen for any language. I don't see the comparison?

[moron4hire]

ASP.NET used to be difficult to configure and deploy (just some things like basic defaults being pretty bad for real apps), but even then I'd say the alternatives at the time (EJB, Spring, etc.) were significantly worse. For all other uses, I've had zero tooling problems. Oh sure, there were times I painted myself into a corner with regards to my app design, but that will happen in any language. I've never found any platform as easy to get up and running as .NET.