Writing Android Application in .NET

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Hi Friends,
I have developed a windows application in C#. is there a short and comprehensive way to switch my c# code for android. Or is there some way I can develop Android OS 2.2 or 2.3 applications using Visual Studio.
I can understand Windows and Android have different origins. I am to rewrite all the codes in Java. Can you please suggest the best approach to solve this difficulty.
Thanks for help

Posted 27-Mar-11 12:17pm

J imran

Updated 27-Mar-11 12:28pm

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Solution 2

Did you remove your previous Question?

I referred to platforms supported by Mono: http://www.mono-project.com/Supported_Platforms[^]. It says you can use Mono with x86 and ARM architectures on Android.

If you can install Mono, you can use Visual Studio (use target platform 3.5 or earlier) for development and run the applications on Android. You have to confine your development by standard libraries or those supported by Mono without recompilation. For example, I develop my applications using System.Windows.Forms and run them on Linux with Mono, even though this library is not standardized with ECMA.

By some reason, my previous Answer disappeared, I have no idea why.

—SA

Posted 27-Mar-11 13:30pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 27-Mar-11 20:45pm

This is a not so seldom phenomenon here on CP and has already been targeted in the "Site and Suggestions" forum. Deletion of a question that has already been answered should not be possible to delete if the editor score of OP wouldn't allow for deletion of anybody else's posts.
Besides that it is just "bad form" to delete a question one already received an answer on.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Mar-11 22:25pm

Thank you, Manfred.
It remains unknown who did that in each case, and I almost never faced such situation. In some rare situations the page deletion would be a good solution, in case of extremely rude behavior of one of participants which happens from time to time. In one case administration (probably) removed a question on my report of extremely rude behavior of OP; I did not feel comfortable to make this decision myself...
--SA

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You also can use xamarin for android development.

http://xamarin.com/platform[^]

Posted 2-Nov-15 19:45pm

Shail Mishra

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Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-27T12:20:00

Solution 1

You cannot use the .NET Framework on Android. You might be able to try Mono[^], but you cannot use Visual Studio .NET do do the developement work. I've never heard of anyone using Mono on Android, but it's the open source Linux implementation of CLI.

Posted 27-Mar-11 12:20pm

Dave Kreskowiak

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J imran 27-Mar-11 18:55pm

Thank you Dave,
Can you suggest Mono will work for Android. I am not aware of android fully. I know it is Linux based. Do Linux programs run free in android.
Hope I can make sense for you.
Thank you so much for the help.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Mar-11 19:22pm

Dave, I do use Visual Studio on Windows to create application which I run on Linux with Mono, so I don't see why not doing the same on Android.
(I did not vote.)
--SA

Dave Kreskowiak 27-Mar-11 20:22pm

Because Android is not a full blow implementation of Linux. Unless you test it, there's no way of knowning if it's going to work.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Mar-11 20:28pm

I don't care how full is Unix support, to me it was enough to look at Mono platform compatibility page. Android is supported, no matter how.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Mar-11 19:30pm

Please see my Answer.
--SA