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iOS's developers community had a head start - transitioning from Cocoa to Cocoa Touch is straightforward. Android didn't have this. Android SDK was a giant mess initially, there was no decent IDE for it initially, plenty of things that are `[something doThingWell]` in iOS are much harder in Android to implement.

Then there is fragmentation, availability of $50 devices that guaranteed to have issues with your app.

IMO iOS development is very pleasant (if you have someone other than you to deal with code signing) and Android isn't pleasant at all. Combine that with companies not caring about android apps... All of that contributes to a smaller number of good developers available.

[joshstrange]

> if you have someone other than you to deal with code signing

I hear that, though fastlane [0] makes like 1000x easier. Now my first step for any app is setting up a fastlane job to run Github Actions. My goal is to be able to push code and have an app show up in TestFlight without me ever needing to manually manage that. I can even make "blind" changes to the code and push it which is nice for old codebases or when I'm not on my main laptop but have access to my code.

[0] https://fastlane.tools/