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litetaker 		Old
8th May 2012, 04:57 AM
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Default Interesting Article: Android in C#
Thanks to kenjesse from the #cm7dx2 IRC channel (who uses the same name on XDA), I found out about a really interesting article. I am not a developer and hence my understanding of the article is limited, but from what I gather it is about porting Android to C# from Java, by a start up company, and in the process they observed substantial performance gains in Android, thanks primarily to the better efficiency and optimization of C# over Java, as per the claims of the article! :eek: Note that this is not the primary intent of the company and is merely a side project they worked on out of interest, and they released the source code and relevant tools so that others can tinker with it!

Read on here to learn more: http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/05/01/android-in-c-sharp/

May be a dev can understand this better. Can we soon have a new type of ROM!?? One where Android is written in C# and performs better than even AOSP? :eek:
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Be interesting to see if anyone can comment on this...thank you for sharing.

I have a formal background in education and occupation with regards to computer science. I have written code in both.

Most notably, C# offers huge advantages in object orientation and methods, with some advantages in metadata. Interoperability is also affected as well in a positive function.

This could very well help shape Android in the future in a very positive way, even if its from an effeciency standpoint. Will that 'benchmark' well? Dont know, but dont care either.

Unless Blackberry changes its course and redesigns its OS to a C# based system, no one will be able to sideload Android apps as Blackberry is Java based (not that anyone would care)
 
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