Many years ago, in fact pre-Java, I remember a hallway discussion about the desire to write a single application that could easily run across various platforms. At the time, we were only worried about ...

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Google has replaced MapView with MapFragment for adding mapping and location in Android. Learn what the new API can do, and how to use it. Real Estate is all about location, location, location. Mobile ...

Xamarin, the startup launched earlier this year to provide commercial support for the Mono Project, this week released Mono for Android 4.0, a set of tools designed to allow developers to build C# ...

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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 Mono ...

Xamarin is partnering with Microsoft and will announce Wednesday better integration of its development tools with Microsoft’s Visual Studio IDE. Arising out of the sale of Novell in 2011, Xamarin has ...

A company has substantially ported Google's Java-based Android software to use C# and the .NET framework, a move that could be the first step towards creating an Android-like operating system that ...