{"id":331,"date":"2011-04-21T20:06:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikekuphal.azurewebsites.net\/?p=331"},"modified":"2011-04-21T20:06:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:06:34","slug":"my-notesandroid-dev-for-netc-developers-with-mono-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"My Notes:Android Dev for .NET\/C# Developers with Mono for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Session Speaker: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/wbm\" rel=\"noopener\">Wally McClure<\/a>\u00a0(on intro slide said: aka: &#8220;.NET Judas&#8221;<span>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Where we are at now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laptops are not quite convenient<\/li>\n<li>Power management is important<\/li>\n<li>Wifi is not everywhere<\/li>\n<li>Multiple smart phone platforms<\/li>\n<li>iPhone has tremendous mind share\/market share<\/li>\n<li>Android has seen tremendous growth<\/li>\n<li>RIM is dominant in the corporate market still<\/li>\n<li>WP7 has shipped<\/li>\n<li>.NET Framework is popular<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mobile Dev issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Battery<\/li>\n<li>Screen size<\/li>\n<li>CPU<\/li>\n<li>Memory<\/li>\n<li>Dev tools<\/li>\n<li>Using existing knowledge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mono-project.com\/Main_Page\" rel=\"noopener\">Mono<\/a> =\u00a0 open source implementation of .NET<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mono-android.net\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Mono for Android<\/a> is a .NET\/C# layer over native APIs which can use Visual Studio &#8211; IDE<\/p>\n<p>Big issue currently: No design surface.<span>\u00a0 Use <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddraw.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Droid Draw<\/a>\u00a0for graphical design surface<\/p>\n<p>My take is Mono for Android is great for existing .NET devs to code up Android apps.\u00a0 If you want your app to be really nice though, you are probably going to need to implement the UI natively, and could use Mono for Android as a tool to generate a component to call into for your main biz logic that might already be built in .NET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Session Speaker: Wally McClure\u00a0(on intro slide said: aka: &#8220;.NET Judas&#8221;) Where we are at now: Laptops are not quite convenient Power management is important Wifi is not everywhere Multiple smart phone platforms iPhone has tremendous mind share\/market share Android has seen tremendous growth RIM is dominant in the corporate market still WP7 has shipped .NET &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/?p=331\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Notes:Android Dev for .NET\/C# Developers with Mono for Android&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobileconnections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}