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As I haven't done any Android development, can anyone shed light on how similar the two processes are (iOS dev vs. Android)?

For the typical mobile app, which is really just a few listviews pulling data and images from some kind of web service, Android is significantly easier, IMO. Particularly now that Apple is pushing responsive design and the misery that is auto layout. Java is also easier to deal with than Objective-C. Swift may tip the balance back in Apple's favor but it's not really ready for prime time yet.

However, for anything that really has to push the hardware or interact in an intimate way with the camera or GPU or audio, iOS has much more mature and robust APIs for this and, of course, much less hardware fragmentation.

So essentially it depends a lot on what kind of app you're trying to write.