Recommended device for Android development

I’m interested in learning app development for Android devices, and I’d like to test the apps in a physical device, but my phone is an iPhone.

Which phone model or brand do you recommend for it? Are there some general ideas for choosing a device?

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Any Pixel really. I’d probably lean toward like a Pixel 8a if you’ve got the budget for it since you’ll get 7 years of updates so you can target the latest Android platform. Plus, Google commonly has sales on the Google Store (definitely avoid paying full price for one). But all the Pixels have good 3rd party ROM support so even the older ones can run the newest versions of Android using Lineage or something similar.

TBH, if you’re just learning, I’d say just use the Android Studio emulator.