I wanted to develop some apps for Android platform and primarily being a .net developer, I was thinking of switching to Java platform for developing Android applications.
Then, I thought of evaluating alternate options to develop Android apps using C# itself. I came across the below options.
1. Dot42
http://www.dot42.com/
2. Mono Project / Xamarin
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
http://xamarin.com/
I started evaluating Dot42 and found as a cool option to build Android apps using Visual Studio 2010 itself. Dot42 doesn't require any runtime environment (like Mono) and we can debug and deploy the application into Android devices from Visual Studio itself.
The API names are exactly same with the DLLs provided by Dot42. If we know the method name in Java for any functionality, we can use method name (only casing is the difference) in C#.
I was able to create my first test application using C# in less than 10 minutes. I will share in my next blog on how to create the test app using Dot42.
Then, I thought of evaluating alternate options to develop Android apps using C# itself. I came across the below options.
1. Dot42
http://www.dot42.com/
2. Mono Project / Xamarin
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
http://xamarin.com/
I started evaluating Dot42 and found as a cool option to build Android apps using Visual Studio 2010 itself. Dot42 doesn't require any runtime environment (like Mono) and we can debug and deploy the application into Android devices from Visual Studio itself.
The API names are exactly same with the DLLs provided by Dot42. If we know the method name in Java for any functionality, we can use method name (only casing is the difference) in C#.
I was able to create my first test application using C# in less than 10 minutes. I will share in my next blog on how to create the test app using Dot42.
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