A company called Xamarin has announced that it has ported the Java-based Android operating system over to C# and the .NET framework. The new operating system resulting from the port is being ...

The results? Xamarin ran a series of benchmarks and found that Android actually runs faster on C# than it does on Java. Xamarin has released the source code for their new version of Android.

Xamarin has ported Android to C# in an effort to improve its own development tools and show that the OS doesn’t have to be dependent on Java. Development tools vendor Xamarin was started in May ...

If you develop in C#, you can now build apps for iPhone and iPad … and hundreds of millions of Android smartphones and tablets. And you can do it all right on your PC in your favorite ...

Xamarin chief Miguel de Icaza answers five questions about XobotOS, the skunkworks project to port Android to C#. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor May 3, 2012, 3:44 a.m. PT ...

In However, Xamarin officials think C# is the ideal mobile-development language and the one that's easiest for mobile devs of all stripes to use to write iOS, Android and Windows 8 apps.

Xamarin developers started a skunkworks project to port the Java parts of Android to use C# and .NET instead. The result is XobotOS.

The full-fledged Visual Studio IDE has the aforementioned Xamarin (C#), Apache Cordova (JavaScript) project types, while the cross-platform, open source Visual Studio Code editor is becoming a ...

Xamarin, the current care takers of the Mono project, have released a prototype of Android with the Java virtual machine completely removed. In its place is the Mono for Android version of the CLR, wi ...