I have to at least partly agree with you here daniel, while I would love to develop smartphone applications using C#/Mono, getting an iPhone to do so is not a compromise I'm willing to make. Too expensive for the masses (outside of the US anyway) and way too much dictatorship. Frankly, I think Apple and the iPhone is at its peak at the moment as they transition from small and lightweight to large and heavy.
Miguel did blog about it a couple of years ago [http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Nov-13-1.html] and as you mention, Koushik did get a prototype up and running earlier this year [http://www.koushikdutta.com/2009/01/mono-for-android-now-available-on.html] but since then not much has happened. Of course, we are free to join in and work on this ourselves (the typical response) but I just wanted to add that I have also talked to several other Android developers who would not mind a more expressive language as well as better runtime, as also investigated by Koushik [http://www.koushikdutta.com/2009/01/dalvik-vs-mono.html]. /Casper On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:23 AM, daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > What are mono projects plans regarding Android. > > I see that a basic port has been done but that its not good for much > more then a hello world app. > > I assumed that strategically Android would be more important to mono > then the iphone. Given that android has a Linux kernel and is open > source, it seems to be a much better fit for mono then what the iphone > is. And as such would have a larger mind share amongst mono developers. > Instead a lot of effort has gone in to supporting the most closed and > tightly controlled mobile platform in existence. > > Predictions are that android will overtake the iphone in market share by > 2012. Not only is Android free and open source google is actually paying > venders to use android (http://tinyurl.com/yzqjmkq). Companies like > motorola are betting their future on android. > > Being able to use mono to do cross platform mobile development would be > awesome. But the catch is in order to capture a decent share of android > development you will have to be in early. > > The appeal of mono is that it enables cross platform .net development, > if so why concentrate so much on a single platform to the exclusion of > the others. (surely its not because you can charge for mono touch, if so > the mono project has strayed very far from its roots) > > It seems to me that mono is excursively betting everything on the wrong > horse. > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list >
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