Android Ported To C#

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Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 1, 2012 @10:17AM 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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Software Apocolypse... by raydobbs · 2012-05-01 10:21 · Score: 5, Funny

....this still won't save you from the Oracle software apocalypse.
1. Re:Software Apocolypse... by nicholas22 · 2012-05-01 11:05 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  If Oracle wins the suit, this project will be liable for damages to Google :) A brave new world indeed!
Re:Android by TheRaven64 · 2012-05-01 10:36 · Score: 2, Funny

Maybe if Google ships this Microsoft and Oracle will fight to the death over who gets to sue Google...

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Re:c# what a lousy name by zill · 2012-05-01 10:39 · Score: 2, Funny

No wonder C# never caught on. Microsoft grossly overestimated the cardinality of the intersection between the set of programming nerds and the set of music nerds.
Re:Android by zill · 2012-05-01 10:41 · Score: 4, Funny

The order of the battle has already been decided. Oracle is the mini boss and Microsoft is the last boss.
Re:RUN FOR YOUR LIVES by FrootLoops · 2012-05-01 11:07 · Score: 3, Funny

I agree this is off-topic, but I really like WPF. It has a steep learning curve and a lot of quirks, but data binding, templates, and the layout system save a lot of time and make things look nice. The people complaining about WPF in your link often called themselves old; maybe that's the real problem (I'm quite young).
Re:c# what a lousy name by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-01 11:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Hash? I though it was a bunch of pluses squished together to save space. You're saying C# isn't C++++?
Wow, my mind's blown. Cue Lemmings' self-destruct animation: Grabs head and explodes!
Re:c# what a lousy name by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-01 11:14 · Score: 2, Funny

Looked like C tic tac toe to me.
Re:Android by Bobfrankly1 · 2012-05-01 11:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Microsoft is a bigger, more evil giant than even Oracle.
I'm not entirely sure you've ever dealt with Oracle...
Oracle vs Google is like "do no good" vs "do no evil".
Re:Android by Trogre · 2012-05-01 13:49 · Score: 1, Funny

Why is that? Has Ballmer stood down as CEO or something?
I know Oracle is a horrible, horrible company, not worthy of our money but comparing it to Microsoft is perhaps like comparing Robert Mugabe to Atilla the Hun.

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