Dotnet Moving to Android

Now you can run Dotnet Applications on Android. This is done with Novell’s Mono, an open version of Microsoft Dotnet Platform.

Novell Launches Mono for Android. It is a variant of Microsoft Dotnet Platform that works on Google’s mobile operations. Mono is already available in official versions for including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux distributions of SuSE and Red Hat.

Dotnet Applications for Android can be written in C # language, and also with other Dotnet Languages, for version 4 of Dotnet. You can use either Microsoft’s development tool Visual Studio 2010 Professional or Novell free tools monodevelop.

Novell has previously Mono Touch range. There is a solution to run Dotnet Application on Apple’s operating system IOS.

The statement indicates that Novell is focused on the use of C # to create Dotnet Applications for Android, although in principle, it ought to work with other Dotnet languages, like Visual Basic.

It is possible to make use of Android’s API, in addition to APIs for Dotnet. The use of Android’s APIs should mean that the possibilities of developing for multiple operating systems reduces.

In the process of creating Mono for Android, the product has been called Monodroid.