Mono for Android is Awesome!!

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Its been an Android era. Every six out of ten persons was an android developer. This explosion has sent shock waves on the Desktop computing world, Cell phones possess more computing power than the Desktops (atleast in my case ;-) ).

Android is still enchanting developers including .NET developers, In this post like a thousand post out on the internet, will sum up a little bit about  "Mono for Android". The second thought would cross a .NET mind before starting developing apps is the learning curve involved for studying the IDE & Java. This won't be a barrier anymore as we can start developing apps using C# in our own home ground Visual Studio.




Before you start anything on this cool framework read this. The Mono and the Dalvik are the real heroes who do the work using C without whom it would have to a bit hard not impossible.

Le me share some snippets which would be required to start with (For detailed docs refer this docs)

Designing a view is similar to an aspx file or xaml file in asp.net & slverlight respcetively. Instead here we design using axml file which will look like below



Activity is similar to the Form in a windows application



Database operation are just like using MSSQL SqlDatareader, SqlCommand, etc.,



Thank you Team Xamarin



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