Image via WikipediaAccording to recent research of Gartner, the Android operating system should own 50% of mobile market share in 2012.
Android developers use primarily Java and Google-based Java libraries. While this sounds like a multi-platform strategy, the reality is a bit different:
On 6-April-2011 Novell announced the awaited release of their Mono for Android. Mono is a tool that enables mobile programmers to use C# and Microsoft Visual Studio to create .NET based applications that run on Android phones and tablets.
- Android does not use established Java standards, i.e. Java SE and ME.
- Popularity of Java among the developers is decreasing significantly over time. Instead, the most popular programming language is with no doubts C (C, C++, C# and objective C).
This can save a lot of time and money since the developers can share common code for multiple platforms including Android, iOS (using MonoTouch), Windows Phone 7, Windows desktops and Windows server.
I've been waiting for this!!!!
Developing Android Applications in .NET - CodeProject
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