05.14
I have started developing for Android a month and an half ago. Developing for Android can be described in two words, simple and smooth. The developing language is Java, and even though, the company were I work mainly develops in Java, I consider it to be fairly simple to start developing. The IDE is an Eclipse plug-in, that all in all suits the needs of the developer. It integrates very well with the ADT (Android Development Tools). Even, when running in a 64 bits development machine (the tools are for 32 bits), the emulator and the ADB (Android Debug Bridge Daemon) worked flawlessly. The only criticism that I can find is the fact that the emulator stays a little bit on the slow side of things, at least when compared to a real device.
For that reason and the fact that the device can be more picky when it comes down to memory, I recommend the usage of a real device from day one.
And by the way, this my fist post from the Wordpress Android application ;).