I'm a new Android developer, it does require the 14 beta testers, at least as of last week when I tried to get it published. So far I've printed flyers and asked friends, but I'm definitely struggling to get enough testers. Almost everyone I know has iPhones and the few people with Android (apart from myself) don't collect Orchids so my app doesn't have relevance to them.

Apple was much easier, pay $99 and 1 week later it was published.