Canonical's Linux distribution, Ubuntu, is the preferred choice for application developers for Google's mobile device operating system. Ubuntu with Android Studio and the Android SDK for Android app development is an excellent combination.
This interests Canonical and therefore it is creating a friendly environment for developers, especially thinking about its operating system Ubuntu Touch. If you can attract developers who are comfortable with your platform, then you will have that foundation for developing apps for your mobile operating system.
That developers choose a Linux distribution is interesting, especially to break the hegemony of Mac OS X as development platform or those who prefer Windows for it. And as reported from Canonical, not only do they choose Ubuntu to develop applications for Ubuntu itself or for other distros, but they choose it for the development of apps for other platforms.
Canonical has gone the extra mile to attract more developers and created the Ubuntu Developer Tools Center, an interesting tool that provides a very useful PPA for developers and that is supported in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
hegemony, please.