David Ansermot Web Developer / TYPO3 Integrator

MonoDroid project brings .NET on Android

This is not a scoop. NET is becoming more widespread. Today, the framework from Microsoft could affect Android, the Java platform of his great rival Google, thanks to a project from Novell, the Mono editor.

Small return on the Mono project.

Mono is implementing open-source and portable. NET framework. Some even say that Mono is preferred to Java application development for Linux workstation.

The project also aims to make applications interoperable with Microsoft Virtual Machine installed on posts in order to achieve compatibility on all operating systems without having to edit / compile the code.

And among the systems promising, there are obviously Android (Google’s platform which initially covers smartphones, but who wants to generalize to all mobile devices, possibly more …).

This project intends achieve MonoDroid, option for Android Mono somehow, to reach mobile and all the different devices in the future, adopt the OS giant’s website.

By enabling the deployment. NET applications on Android, will allow Novell Does Microsoft to become an alternative to Java (especially in terms of interoperability with its virtual machine) or Python?

MonoDroid Or will he a minor project?
Time will tell (and especially the first preview, which is already attracting a lot of waiting).

MonoDroid was announced at Mix10, Microsoft’s living room.

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