A skunkworks project by Xamarin, the developers of Mono for Android and Mono Touch, machine-translated millions of lines of Java in Android to C#. VSM Editor in Chief Keith Ward reported on the ...

If you develop in C#, you can now build apps for iPhone and iPad … and hundreds of millions of Android smartphones and tablets. And you can do it all right on your PC in your favorite development ...

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Xamarin has been bringing .NET to iOS and Android developers for a number of years, including enabling iOS development from within Visual Studio. Microsoft, of course, has been doing the same for ...

Java is the underlying code for the Android OS. But one company has changed all that, ripping out most of the Java and replacing it with C#. That means .NET developers can code in a familiar language ...

Xamarin, the cross-platform mobile app development company that's now a Microsoft unit, updated the tooling in its standalone IDE and its Visual Studio counterpart, along with platform-specific SDKs.

Android APKs can support seven different architectures as defined by the presence of .so files (native libraries) in the lib/<ABI> folders in the APK. Where <ABI> corresponds to the supported ...