The emulator is painful no matter what language/environment you're using. I've 
noticed what Wally did though - if you HAVE to use the emulator you're probably 
going to prefer doing so under OSX. The development cycle with a decent device 
is not bad. Device + MonoDroid + Visual Studio + Resharper is a nice setup.

The Droid folks I work with use the emulator for testing under different 
deployment environments but not for day-to-day development.

-pm


On Aug 29, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Wally McClure wrote:

> Eric,
> 
> as an fyi, I'm finding that mono for android on the mac with mono develop is 
> much more usable than mono for android on windows with visual studio or mono 
> develop.  I'm not quite sure what the issues are, but there is a definite 
> difference.
> 
> Wally
> 
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:35:25 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [MonoTouch] Performance in the Eval
> 
> you'll probably get a better response if you ask this on the MonoDroid 
> mailing list
> 
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:33 AM, efontana <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm a registered MonoTouch owner, I want to port my app to Android, I tried
> the Eval for MonoDroid.
> 
> It's totally unusable, even on my new i7 with 8 gigs of ram, the emulator is
> abysmal.
> 
> So, my question is, if you use a *Real* device, what's the time like for a
> code change, deploy execute and hit a breakpoint?
> 
> When trying this with the Eval, from the time I hit "Debug -> Start" till it
> hits the breakpoint, could be as long as 90 seconds, then single stepping
> goes off into the weeds.
> 
> Does the debugger work on a real device? What's the typical turn around
> time?
> 
> 
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