[friggeri]

The other way of looking at this data is that Android developers need more help [edit: on StackOverflow] than iOS developers. Which does not imply anything on popularity but tell something very interesting on the quality of the SDKs or developers… (I'm neither an Android nor iOS developer)

[smackfu]

Android developers need more help from StackOverflow than iOS developers. Aren't there private forums for Apple developers, that you can only see if you are a registered developer?

[friggeri]

You're absolutely right, I should have included from StackOverflow above.

[Pewpewarrows]

Your argument might have some merit, except that you could apply it to almost anything and get non-sensical results. Django for example has close to half of the activity that Ruby on Rails does. Does that mean that Rails has severely worse documentation or APIs? Doubtful.

The more developers use a piece of technology, the more that will have questions about said technology. Poor documentation will certainly lead to more questions, but you can't look at these graphs and have any real data to support your case one way or the other.

[chugger]

you nailed it. Plus iOS have better documentation and there's a ton of books and online docs, support, etc.

This is Google we're talking about. Support is virtually non-existent.