I've been writing iPad apps for a while but considering testing the Android waters. I'd love to hear some of your thoughts on the Android tablet development experience now that 3.2 is out.
Galaxy Tablet + Eclipse and official JDK is what I use. Pretty streamlined. On Unix and Mac you don't even have to install the USB driver.
I really have no complaints; there is no live REPL, but you have the second best, code getting statically checked & compiled with every key stroke. Android docs are abundant, but after 2-3 months you get a feel for it.
I have written close to 12 apps by now. I believe we will one of the biggest Galaxy tablet roll outs in Australia, with 40-50 units distributed to our companies by year's end.
My experience might be skewed since we're not going through the official Marketplace channel, and also because we control all the devices (in fact, they're useless outside our VPN.) OTOH, we're using the API extensively. I found bugs in the Samsung hardware and there are things I can't get help for, do to the extreme rarity (and bleeding-edgeness) of what we're attempting.
Doesn't sound too bad. I've recently written a couple of trivial apps for my old Droid and so far it's been a lot easier than iOS. Too bad the emulator is so bad. I'm a little hesitant to sink $500 on an actual tablet just to explore.
You might consider the Nook Color. $250 gets you a very capable android device (it's an official CyanogenMod device), although it lacks some of the usual bells and whistles one might expect in the tablet space (front-facing camera, gyro, etc).
