Let’s be honest: As app developers, we’ve always defended the beauty and polish of iOS(s AAPL) (and have certainly been slapped with the “Apple fanboy” label more than once).

But something strange has happened the past few months. Many of our employees are starting to carry Android devices as their primary handset — shocking our significant others, families and friends. More notably, our projects are increasingly becoming Android-centric — from a number of native Android apps for our top clients to prototypes and POCs around Android (s GOOG) Wear and Google Glass.

What the heck is happening? Isn’t Android supposed to be a total pain for developers like us (as well as our clients)?

As the old argument used to go (and we made this argument for years), developing for Android meant:

• A splintered, “lowest common denominator” experience that forced developers to use outdated SDKs, APIs and tools to ensure…