Android Mono project complements Novell MonoTouch, launched in 2009, allowing developers to build applications for Apple IOS devices using the same programming language -. NET and C #. Developers using both platforms can now save time by sharing code between the iPhone, iPad iPad Touch, Android (mobile and tablets), plus of course, your Windows 7, Windows PC and Windows servers.
Included with the monkey to Android is the core runtime Mono bindings to the native APIs of Android, a plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 and SDK (software development kit) which contains the tools that developers need to create, debug and deploy their applications. And with an included add-on, users can build MonoDevelop on OS X. (MonoDevelop is an open source C # and NET development environment for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows).
In addition to the $ 399 Professional Edition license, Enterprise Edition is also available for $ 999 per year, which includes the company implementations, maintenance and upgrades. There is also an Enterprise license of five developer is $ 3,999 per year. Current users of MonoTouch can take 50% discount on your purchase of Mono Android for a limited time, according to Novell.
You can learn more about Mono for Android here, check out the installation guide, tutorials, API, API design, architecture Mono for Android and the list of class libraries that are part of Mono Android.