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Android Ported To C#

Posted by Soulskill on from the did-not-see-that-one-coming dept.

New submitter Eirenarch writes "Xamarin has just announced that they got the Java part of Android ported to C# via machine translation. The resulting OS, called XobotOS, is available on Github. They claim some serious performance gains over Dalvik. For them, this is an experiment that they are not planning to focus on, but they will be using some of the technologies in Mono for Android."

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  1. Android by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Android ported to microsoft patent trap

  2. Isn't Mono dead? by Jerry+Atrick · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So what's the point?

  3. Re:Java to C# is easy by ZeroSumHappiness · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, but I don't see why'd you use Mono on Linux when you have to run Windows underneath Linux anyway. I mean, you could just use MS's .NET instead. But you know these FOSS types love re-building the wheel.

  4. Re:RUN FOR YOUR LIVES by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Or, you just build your software rather than caring about whether you are using the latest fad pattern.