In response to switch, I don't take offense to anything you just said. I believe you were simply looking out for me and trying to give useful advice. Thanks and I completely understand what you are saying and where you're coming from.

Ummm for a good chunk of time I have been considering the option of if I would need to bring on someone with years of experience with this sort of thing or if I could simply spend weeks back to back grinding on google ya know.

At this point I'm going to continue my research - couldn't hurt right. But at the same time check our my network of entrepreneur friends both locally and on the www to see if anyone is looking to join up.

Again I appreciate the honesty, don't have time to beat around the bush these days!

Do you know if android uses the same kernel/hardware interaction as Linux? If I understand correctly android is based on Linux but then it's also based on java so I'm not sure there.