No Java Required: Write Android Apps in C#

Java is the underlying code for the Android OS. But one company has changed all that, ripping out most of the Java and replacing it with C#.

That means .NET developers can code in a familiar language and produce apps that leverage C#'s advantages, including speed increases.

It started as a skunkworks project for Xamarin. Xamarin's claim to fame is Mono, an open-source framework allowing Android and iOS apps to be built using C# running on top of Java. Now, with what the company calls the XobotOS Research Project, the Java layer has been removed via a "machine translation of Android from Java to C#," according to ablog post from Xamarin CTO Miguel de Icaza.

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