The Mono guys put a theme interface in place for WinForms, which could be used to make WinForms apps look "right" on Android.
Just my 2 cents. Good luck! Thomas Jam Pedersen wrote: > > Thanks for your feedback Daniel. > > OK, so you don't like winform. (But this is where the majority of > developers are worldwide) > Would WPF be better for you? > > Let me tell you what we want. We are not particular focusing on winform. > What we want to do, is to make it possible to build an application in > Visual Studio. > Then be able to run that application on 6 different platforms without > having to rebuild it for each platform. And it should look and feel almost > the same on all 6 platforms. And it shall be able to run both as a > preinstalled application and as a small application which you run ondemand > from URL link. (essentially embedded in a webpage) > > For Android we would like to make a bridge that enable you to access > Dalvik (Android Java) functionality. But we don't want to force developers > to do anything in Java or learn a new IDE. > > Given these two constraints (no java, no new IDE) it would be nice if some > of you could give us feedback on what you would like to have on Android. > (and other mobile platforms) > > Best regards, > > Thomas > > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: [email protected] på vegne af daniel > Sendt: on 04-11-2009 06:49 > Til: [email protected] > Emne: Re: [Mono-list] Android > > I personally would rather bindings to the android graphics libraries > (whatever they are called) then a winforms port which will just look and > feel wrong. > > At work I am a windows mobile developer and develop using the compact > framework and I can tell you that winforms on mobile devices sucks big > time. Its impossible to create anything that look half way decent. And > if you want to do anything remotely modern looking you have to drop into > native libraries using pinvoke. > > So no thank you to the win forms but yes please to mono on android. > Something on par with the iphone support would be great. > > Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 13:04 +0100, Thomas Jam Pedersen wrote: >> >>> We are currently porting Mono to Android. (and soon also to ChromeOS) >>> >> >> Exciting. (a) I love .NET and (b) I just pre-ordered my Motorola Droid. >> >> I really, really, don't want to develop in Java. >> >> >>> We expect to release the first version in the beginning of next year. >>> (2010) >>> We hope to make it so that winform programs developed in VisualStudio >>> will run on all platforms without recompile (in most cases). >>> >> >> Wow! A Winforms app on a mobile device? I don't even want to do that - >> but if you make it work someone should buy you a beer. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mono-list maillist - [email protected] >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Android-tp26177657p26192032.html Sent from the Mono - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
