[Mono-list] Android

[Casper Bang]

I have to at least partly agree with you here daniel, while I would love to
develop
smartphone applications using C#/Mono, getting an iPhone to do so is not
a compromise I'm willing to make. Too expensive for the masses (outside
of the US anyway) and way too much dictatorship. Frankly, I think Apple and
the iPhone is at its peak at the moment as they transition from small
and lightweight to large and heavy.

Miguel did blog about it a couple of years ago
[http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Nov-13-1.html] and as you mention,
Koushik did get a prototype up and running earlier this year
[http://www.koushikdutta.com/2009/01/mono-for-android-now-available-on.html]
but since then not much has happened.

Of course, we are free to join in and work on this ourselves (the
typical response) but I just wanted to add that I have also talked to
several other Android developers who would not mind a more expressive
language as well as better runtime, as also investigated by Koushik
[http://www.koushikdutta.com/2009/01/dalvik-vs-mono.html].

/Casper


On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:23 AM, daniel <trampster at gmail.com> wrote:

> What are mono projects plans regarding Android.
>
> I see that a basic port has been done but that its not good for much
> more then a hello world app.
>
> I assumed that strategically Android would be more important to mono
> then the iphone. Given that android has a Linux kernel and is open
> source, it seems to be a much better fit for mono then what the iphone
> is. And as such would have a larger mind share amongst mono developers.
> Instead a lot of effort has gone in to supporting the most closed and
> tightly controlled mobile platform in existence.
>
> Predictions are that android will overtake the iphone in market share by
> 2012. Not only is Android free and open source google is actually paying
> venders to use android (http://tinyurl.com/yzqjmkq). Companies like
> motorola are betting their future on android.
>
> Being able to use mono to do cross platform mobile development would be
> awesome. But the catch is in order to capture a decent share of android
> development you will have to be in early.
>
> The appeal of mono is that it enables cross platform .net development,
> if so why concentrate so much on a single platform to the exclusion of
> the others. (surely its not because you can charge for mono touch, if so
> the mono project has strayed very far from its roots)
>
> It seems to me that mono is excursively betting everything on the wrong
> horse.
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