Completely agree. Some of the unhappiest engineers & designers I know are on teams trying to copy the company's iOS app on Android.
We were admittedly in the position you describe: a company of majoritively iPhone users who shipped the web & iOS apps, cleaned up the API and were starting on Android.
We also ordered a range of devices and hooked them up to our Play Store alpha channel so every build had to go through the 3" phone and 10" tablet test.
Finally, it helped to have a couple hard core Android users on the team who could explain why simple features like the 'back' button are truly game changers. There's a good post on some of these differences here: http://paulstamatiou.com/android-is-better/
We were admittedly in the position you describe: a company of majoritively iPhone users who shipped the web & iOS apps, cleaned up the API and were starting on Android.
I don't think there's a perfect solution but we found digging into some of the guides & sample apps listed here to be particularly useful: https://github.com/nstevens/androidguide/wiki/General-Androi...
We also ordered a range of devices and hooked them up to our Play Store alpha channel so every build had to go through the 3" phone and 10" tablet test.
Finally, it helped to have a couple hard core Android users on the team who could explain why simple features like the 'back' button are truly game changers. There's a good post on some of these differences here: http://paulstamatiou.com/android-is-better/