[mono-android] Introducing the Xamarin Mobile API Preview

[Eric Maupin]

With MonoTouch and Mono for Android, you can already share a huge portion
of your code across iOS, Android and Windows Phone. There is, however, this
middle ground of APIs that are present in all three platforms, but you
can't share your code that utilizes them. You currently have to write
separate sets of code to use geolocation, the accelerometer, contacts, etc
on these various platforms and we want to fix that. The Xamarin Mobile API
Preview contains a new set of APIs designed and implemented to support
these features evenly across iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

We want your feedback to help guide us in this endeavor, so today we're
releasing a preview. The preview contains a unified geolocation API with
implementations on iOS and Android. We'll be releasing a Windows Phone
implementation at some point in the future. Try it out and give us your
feedback, we want to know what you think! Let us know of any pain points in
the API, if something doesn't work, etc. We also want to know what other
areas you care most about us unifying next, whether it be contacts,
notifications, etc.

As this is a preview, please keep in mind that APIs may change, things may
be broken and not all of the docs are filled out. For Android, currently a
minimum API level of 7 is required. Additionally on Android, heading is
disabled and Geolocator's constructor takes an argument of Context.

You can download the preview here:
http://xamarin.com/xamarinmobileapipreview.zip
Let us know what you think here:
https://docs.google.com/a/xamarin.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFBlbEtBZmZaT3pIYnBTRHZOQWV4cFE6MQ
File any bugs you find here:
http://bugzilla.xamarin.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Xamarin%20Mobile%20API%20Preview
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