android ported to c#

marens · Apprentice Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 172

http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/05/01/android-in-c-sharp/ wtf!?

pjp · Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 11:38 pm Post subject:

CYA?
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Prenj · n00b Joined: 20 Nov 2011 Posts: 8 Location: Mostar, BiH

This looks awesome

djdunn · Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 2:14 pm Post subject:

im a big user of android so... you know...

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i don't really know what to say, im not a fan of java, i dont think this will ever be mainstream tho, i dont really see google picking this up really, they are far too invested with java in android
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Dr.Willy · Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 3:40 pm Post subject:

Reality check: Google wanted Java. They even went as far as writing their own fucking VM for it.
If they wanted C#/Mono they would've supported it's development. Or bought Novell. Or developed their own VM for it.
They didn't.

aidanjt · Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 3:46 pm Post subject:

John R. Graham · Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 4:13 pm Post subject:

WTF? No. More like, meh.

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jdhore · Developer Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 105

I read this yesterday and basically went: "Holy hell! Look at that performance chart! WANT! GIVE ME NOW!"

Now that the excitement from seeing a performance difference that big has worn off, I had 2 realizations.

1. I'm fairly sure that at some point someone will show that the Java benchmarks are bad code and written CORRECTLY, Java performs much better than it shows currently. It's currently Java written by C# developers...If it was written by someone with a ton more experience in Java...Yeah.

2. How do we know they didn't choose benchmarks that Mono/C# is particularly good at and Java is not so good at especially considering that only 3 algorithms were benchmarked?

pjp · Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 11:42 pm Post subject:

wswartzendruber · Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 12:18 am Post subject:

So did they build a IL to Dalvik assembler?

pjp · Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 1:46 am Post subject:

IL?

From the coverage I've read on the case, the Google exec (Page?) claimed they developed a clean room implementation of Java because they couldn't come to agreeable terms with Sun. So if they have Davlik, and a clean room Java, they've bypassed the official language. And since they aren't claiming (that I've seen) it to be compatible with Java, it seems they should be in the clear.

They ought to call it Guava, using the G in the font of Google.
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wswartzendruber · Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 2:36 am Post subject:

IL is Intermediate Language. It's .NET's bytecode format.

pjp · Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 3:27 am Post subject:

Ah, don't recall seeing that acronym.

As Dalvik is the equivalent of the JVM, it does use bytecode.

wswartzendruber · Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 4:55 am Post subject:

I would kill to be able to write Android apps in C#.

Dr.Willy · Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 7:47 am Post subject:

wswartzendruber · Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 3:35 pm Post subject:

It looks like they're using LLVM for this. If so, that could explain something.

jdhore · Developer Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 105