Android++, native development and debugging for Visual Studio, now open-source

Re:Android++, native development and debugging for Visual St... by skrowl on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @01:32PM (#10845009)

I wish it was for C# instead of C++. I'd like to tinker around with some phone apps, but Monos prices are too high.

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Re:Android++, native development and debugging for Visual St... by j_s on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @12:38PM (#10851991)

Xamarin Starter Edition is free. There are some tough app size restrictions but apparently they want developers to at least be able to kick the tires!

https://xamarin.com/starter

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Re:Android++, native development and debugging for Visual St... by pmalynin on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @03:49PM (#10845894)

Xamarin.

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Re:Android++, native development and debugging for Visual St... by skrowl on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @03:54PM (#10845938)

Xamarin is the company, Mono is the product, right?

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Re:Android++, native development and debugging for Visual St... by paraboul on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @04:27PM (#10846188)

Xamarin is the whole mobile environment (including framework), Mono is "just" an open source .NET implementation and a C# compiler.

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Re:Android++, native development and debugging for Visual St... by on_and_off on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @08:30AM (#10850360)

then maybe kotlin is what you want ? It shares some nice features with C# and is entirely inter op with java code. Also, it is free.

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Re:Android++, native development and debugging for Visual St... by s73v3r on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @05:25PM (#10846553)

The regular environment for Android is free. As is the regular environment for Windows Phone.

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