Is there any chance it will come out for android as well?

They said they have no plans for an Android version at this time.

Well... that sucks...

To be more specific, here's the long explanation:

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There are four primary reasons why FFG develops primarily for iOS.

1) Market share
While the smartphone marketplace is about even, the overall iOS marketshare (when adding all the other iOS devices to the mix) is still overwhelmingly in favor of the iOS (remember to add iPad and iPod to this as well, and hopefully the Apple TV soon). Further, iOS development is a very easy port to OSX, which itself recently launched a elegant app store.

2) Cost
Developing an app such as the AH toolkit is very expensive, especially as it is done for a very small market (i.e. that of the Arkham Horror players). Converting to Android is not simple or inexpensive. The accepted (or "normal") smartphone market pricing is very low (too low, in fact, in my opinion) making it very hard to viably create quality applications for niche markets. This current pricing reality does not provide the necessary incentive to take the risk to develop for many platforms at initial launch (if the product is proven successful, then this becomes more palatable).

3) Fractioned market
Due to the many different devices and OS versions of Android, it is more complex (and therefore expensive) to develop for the Android, especially as we want to make sure we provide an excellent user-experience. In fact, even while smartphone marketshare is current roughly tied between iOS and Android platforms, the severe range in capacity and the quality of devices in the Android market, makes any one "capability sphere" of Android devices significantly smaller than iOS.

4) Maturity, dev, and business tools.
The Cocoa development environment, the iTunes business reporting and management tool, application security, the iOS business environment itself, etc, are more mature at this moment than the similar aspects for the younger, and fractured, Android.

The above reasons are not unique to FFG and the AH Toolkit, of course, and you'll see similar opinion and informations in other discussions with mobile-device developers all over the internet (there are some users who kindly provided insight to this in the thread).

So, for these reasons, iOS is FFG's current launch environment of choice, and will likely be so in the near future. It's very possible that Android will catch up and eliminate the iOS advantages outlined above at which point we'll revisit our launch strategy for those good reasons.

The good news: The above is not to say that we won't release the AH Toolkit for Android. We are currently studying this option carefully. The early response and sales of the iOS version are very encouraging (we only have a weekend to go on). The more successful the iOS version, the greater the chance that we'll port to Android. So if you're an interested Android user, help FFG encourage iOS users to use the AH toolkit in the AH sessions.

While this does not help Android users to an immediate helping of the AH Toolkit, I hope it does provide a sensible background to the reality that FFG is facing in software development.

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Well, there's always this:

http://www.pieceable.com/viewer

It's an easy way for developers to let people run iOS apps on non-iOS devices.

Vroomfondle said:

Thanks, but I'd rather not pay $30 a month to play Arkham Horror and still be tethered to my PC.

Jedit said:

Actually, that monthly fee is the publisher cost, not the end user cost. Also, last I checked Android did have a functional browser. At least my device does.