Questions tagged [monodroid]

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As a C# developer, would you learn Java to develop for Android or use MonoDroid instead?

I'd consider myself pretty well versed in C#. It's my language of choice at the moment, and it's where basically all my professional experience lies. Still, I'm puzzled by the existence of the MonoDroid project. My understanding has always been that…
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Is C# actually a multiplatform language?

C# (and the .NET platform in general) is looking like it's becoming a good option form multi-targeting applications: official Microsoft .NET framework: full-blow Windows development, ASP.NET development, Windows Phone development, etc. Mono and…
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Does anyone have insight into whether MonoDroid is really dead?

My company just recently invested in the Mono for Android tools for Visual Studio as we have a lot of .NET developers and were impressed with how powerful the monodroid tools seemed. After reading the ZDNet Post I was saddened to see that this…
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Could applications build in Xamarin possibly be banned from App Store by Apple?

Consider having restricted man resources and thinking about using Xamarin Studio for building cross platform application. Will you be afraid of Apple trying to ban all applications NOT developed by xCode? I mean in future. It is obviously not banned…
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Is there a canonical book on Monodroid?

So far I have been living of standard Android books and mainly blogs for Monodroid, but I'm trying to find a definitive resource about the topic and not having any luck. Is there a book out there that's the de-facto standard for describing best…
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.Net application on Android OS

I am Database Administrator, but now I need to know something about android applications. I need to run an existing .Net application in Android Operating System, while surfing on the internet I came to know that, I can use MonoDroid to build and run…