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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. Software Apocolypse... by raydobbs · · Score: 5, Funny

    ....this still won't save you from the Oracle software apocalypse.

    1. Re:Software Apocolypse... by nicholas22 · · Score: 4, Funny

      If Oracle wins the suit, this project will be liable for damages to Google :) A brave new world indeed!

  2. Re:Android by zill · · Score: 4, Funny

    The order of the battle has already been decided. Oracle is the mini boss and Microsoft is the last boss.

  3. Re:c# what a lousy name by Anonymous Coward · · 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!

  4. Re:Android by Bobfrankly1 · · 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".