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The team behind the open-source Mono implementation of the .NET framework has released a port of Android to the C# language. Xamarin, the development-platform company that has been building on ...

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 ...

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 ...

They’ve taken the source code for Android and modified it so that instead of running on a Dalvik Java virtual machine, it uses a virtual machine based on Mono, the open source implementation of C#.

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 ...

Xamarin, in an experiment, proves that .NET and C# could be used instead of Java for Android--to a better effect performance-wise--possibly enabling Google to sidestep patent issues.

This has lead to what they now call the XobotOS. Since Android uses Java heavily, this was no easy task, and Xamarin used automatic, machine-based translation of the Java code to C#.