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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."

6 of 351 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Android by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft is a bigger, more evil giant than even Oracle.

    I'm not entirely sure you've ever dealt with Oracle...

  2. Re:Android by gman003 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bigger? Perhaps. More evil? Not a chance in hell.

  3. Re:RUN FOR YOUR LIVES by Richard_at_work · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sounds like you are doing it wrong then, because there's a whole ecosystem of .Net developers out there who seem to get things done just fine...

  4. Re:Android by jd2112 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Having dealt with both I can say Oracle is much more evil than Microsoft.

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    Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
  5. Re:Android by hobarrera · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Java has something C# lacks: a good IDE.
    Java has eclipse.
    C# has ... ? Monodevelop? Yeah right. Visual Studio. LOL!

  6. Re:Android by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Both are "Do No Good". Theres a Google rap sheet a mile long stemming from the last 4 years.

    "Do No Good"? Isn't there anything they might have done recently that might earn them a little karma? Like say, pulling out of China when every other corporation is busy sucking Comrade Dick for the mere hint of market access.

    It's costing them, too. For instance, the PRC government has been threatening to disrupt the Motorola merger -- since Motorola has a major presence in China (including a lot of development and manufacturing), they could seriously work Google over using their regulatory agencies.