[Mono-list] Android

[Mike Christensen]

Well the Windows Mobile 7 platform will be centered around the
Silverlight runtime.  I would suggest positioning Mono/Android in a
similar strategy.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Stifu <stifu at free.fr> wrote:
>
> The Mono guys put a theme interface in place for WinForms, which could be
> used to make WinForms apps look "right" on Android.
>
> Just my 2 cents. Good luck!
>
>
> Thomas Jam Pedersen wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback Daniel.
>>
>> OK, so you don't like winform. (But this is where the majority of
>> developers are worldwide)
>> Would WPF be better for you?
>>
>> Let me tell you what we want. We are not particular focusing on winform.
>> What we want to do, is to make it possible to build an application in
>> Visual Studio.
>> Then be able to run that application on 6 different platforms without
>> having to rebuild it for each platform. And it should look and feel almost
>> the same on all 6 platforms. And it shall be able to run both as a
>> preinstalled application and as a small application which you run ondemand
>> from URL link. (essentially embedded in a webpage)
>>
>> For Android we would like to make a bridge that enable you to access
>> Dalvik (Android Java) functionality. But we don't want to force developers
>> to do anything in Java or learn a new IDE.
>>
>> Given these two constraints (no java, no new IDE) it would be nice if some
>> of you could give us  feedback on what you would like to have on Android.
>> (and other mobile platforms)
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
>> Fra: mono-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com på vegne af daniel
>> Sendt: on 04-11-2009 06:49
>> Til: Mono-list at lists.ximian.com
>> Emne: Re: [Mono-list] Android
>>
>> I personally would rather bindings to the android graphics libraries
>> (whatever they are called) then a winforms port which will just look and
>> feel wrong.
>>
>> At work I am a windows mobile developer and develop using the compact
>> framework and I can tell you that winforms on mobile devices sucks big
>> time. Its impossible to create anything that look half way decent. And
>> if you want to do anything remotely modern looking you have to drop into
>> native libraries using pinvoke.
>>
>> So no thank you to the win forms but yes please to mono on android.
>> Something on par with the iphone support would be great.
>>
>> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 13:04 +0100, Thomas Jam Pedersen wrote:
>>>
>>>> We are currently porting Mono to Android. (and soon also to ChromeOS)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Exciting.  (a) I love .NET and (b) I just pre-ordered my Motorola Droid.
>>>
>>> I really, really, don't want to develop in Java.
>>>
>>>
>>>> We expect to release the first version in the beginning of next year.
>>>> (2010)
>>>> We hope to make it so that winform programs developed in VisualStudio
>>>> will run on all platforms without recompile (in most cases).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Wow!  A Winforms app on a mobile device?  I don't even want to do that -
>>> but if you make it work someone should buy you a beer.
>>>
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