Well the Windows Mobile 7 platform will be centered around the Silverlight runtime. I would suggest positioning Mono/Android in a similar strategy.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Stifu <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
