I could clone a whole coin in 3 hours with new logos, seednodes, name and algo and compiled wallets for win and mac...
New Genesis Block is calculated in 15 seconds, so I'm not sure what the real reasons for the delay is but its a pity..
Why not just contribute to the source? Shadow (SDC) :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=745352.0 Android/iOS wallets were both released in the last week.
Thanks to the dev for giving proper credit to SDC.