More Progress on Writing Android Applications in Mono

14 comments:

Unknown said...

Wow, absolutely amazing!

I've got a project waiting to be ported to Android, so I'll be right there to put it to use once you release it to the master.

Keep it up! :)

Scott R. Frost said...

Can you please post a quick HOWTO to get up and running (both on how to get the phone ready and how to get the IDE going)?

GhostInAK said...

I love it. Can't wait to start using it. That is.. will you be releasing it?

Koush said...

I'm running into a issue where Mono's GC (Boehm) can't suspend anything but the main thread when garbage collecting. This breaks stuff... I need to fix this first, then I'll have something usable.

GhostInAK said...

Let us know if we can help.

JeroMiya said...

Once we get a working system, one thing we need to think about is how to dynamically update the mono binaries from within an installed app - I'm thinking that we'd have some sort of monoandroid "package" format, and then the user can enter a URL to a package they built (local network or over the internet), to replace/update the mono binaries. This would allow commercial mono-based apps to comply with the LGPL.

JeroMiya said...

What all do we need to install the MonoDevelop.Android plugin once we get it to build? I've done the following:

created ~/.androidmono directory

created ~/.androidmono/config.xml with AndroidSDK and Ant tags defined (I just wrote a file out using an XmlSerializer).

created ~/.config/MonoDevelop/addins directory with the following contents:
MonoDevelop.Android.dll
MonoDevelop.Android.dll.mdb
MonoDevelop.Debugger.Soft.Android.dll
MonoDevelop.Debugger.Soft.Android.dll.mdb

Set the ANDROID_SDK environment variable to my android SDK path.

It looks like it needs com.koushikdutta.monojavabridge.jar in .androidmono but I couldn't find where that was built.

Unknown said...

Wow.. Can't wait..

Any progress ?
Is it in Subversion/SVN ? Stable ?

Duncan McQueen said...

Anything I can do to help bring this to a usable state?

Anonymous said...

Any update on your android mono project?

Anonymous said...

I would love to start using this. It would be great to have the steps needed to get this working written some where.

FZelle said...

Any news about this?
If you need help, alpha/beta tester, or anything, just ask.

Unknown said...

Hello, great work! But where I can download the MonoDevelop.Android and MonoDevelop.Debugger.Soft.Android.

Marco Medrano said...

All those, is wonderful!!! really good work Koush.I encourage you to ahead.