iPhone or Android SDK?

Hi, I’m a junior developer more on Java programming language particularly on web. My boss asked me if I can develop POS application for mobile. He gave me options, iPhone and Android. I read some overviews and features both SDK is capable. Would like to know what would be the easiest SDK to use which includes the familiarity, coding, functionality and resources. Thanks

Objective-C and the Cocoa framework are fun to work with, but only once you’ve got your head around a lot of Apple intricacies. I haven’t used the Android API, but I think it’s likely to be better from my previous experience of Google APIs.

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