Xamarin, the folks that created the Mono open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework, are at it again. This time, they've managed to port parts of Android to Microsoft's C# language.

The Xamarin Evolve 2014 event taking place these days in Atlanta, US, has produced a number of news related to the cross-platform tools Xamarin makes: Android Player – a hardware accelerated ...

A company called Xamarin has announced that it has ported the Java-based Android operating system over to C# and the .NET framework.

The results? Xamarin ran a series of benchmarks and found that Android actually runs faster on C# than it does on Java. Xamarin has released the source code for their new version of Android.

In this interview we talk to open source developer Philipp Crocoll about Keepass2Android. Besides its features as a password store, this project is a good case study for combining Java and C# in a ...

To create XobotOS from a million or more lines of Java, Xamarin used the Java-to-C# conversion tool Sharpen. The company had to develop and improve Sharpen so that it could handle the complexity ...

Android 5 Lollipop has a few new features -- including some UI and performance improvements -- that can now be incorporated into your apps. Here's how to work with the update.

Xamarin is furthering its mission to make C# the mobile-development language of choice by allowing iOS coders to use Microsoft's Visual Studio.

The Xamarin studio, which also allows developers to build Mac apps, lets C# developers leverage their existing skills, “essentially transforming existing teams into mobile developers virtually ...