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Xamarin has ported Android to C# in an effort to improve its own development tools and show that the OS doesn't have to be dependent on Java.

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

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.

This has lead to what they now call the XobotOS. Since Android uses Java heavily, this was no easy task, and Xamarin used automatic, machine-based translation of the Java code to C#.

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.

Xamarin, in an experiment, proves that .NET and C# could be used instead of Java for Android--to a better effect performance-wise--possibly enabling Google to sidestep patent issues.

If you develop in C#, you can now build apps for iPhone and iPad … and hundreds of millions of Android smartphones and tablets. And you can do it all right on your PC in your favorite ...

Xamarin has ported Android to C# in an effort to improve its own development tools and show that the OS doesn’t have to be dependent on Java. Development tools vendor Xamarin was started in May ...