The links below reflect Mono on Android as of January of 2009, I have kept them for historical context Mono on Android is based on the Mono 2.10 runtime, and defaults to 4.0 profile with the C# 4.0 compiler and uses Mono's new SGen garbage collection engine, as well as our new distributed garbage collection system that performs GC across Java and Mono. The work included a few steps: porting Mono to Android, integrating it with Visual Studio, building plugins for MonoDevelop on Mac and Windows and exposing the Java Android APIs to. Update: Since I wrote this answer two years ago, we productized Mono to run on Android. NET already works on Android - you will need product called Monodroid ( ) as stated above. NET wrapper for Android API (and maybe some basic implementation of some standard. All what's needed is CIL->Dalvik converter and tiny. Android already has VM and some basic API. NET and Java are, it's really a matter of time. This tool converts Java bytecode into Dalvik bytecode, so in other words, you can run programs written in Java on Android with no effort today. They can't do everything at once, but if you look into Android SDK, there is a tool called dx. But that's another issue.Īctually what they've already designed is very compatible with Java and. NET framework standard libraries will be supported. So, writing Android applications in C# or VB.NET will be possible, question is how much of. Since both formats are open-sourced and well documented, there won't be any problem with it. All what's needed at this point to start with is some kind of converter that will turn MSIL into Dalvik bytecode. Yes, it will be possible and it won't be that difficult.

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