Xamarin chief Miguel de Icaza answers five questions about XobotOS, the skunkworks project to port Android to C#. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor May 3, 2012, 3:44 a.m. PT ...

This is when I first got in touch with Xamarin's Mono for Android. I had some C# experience from earlier work and at least a little experience with Android.

Xamarin, the current care takers of the Mono project, have released a prototype of Android with the Java virtual machine completely removed. In its place is the Mono for Android version of the CLR ...

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

Xamarin developers started a skunkworks project to port the Java parts of Android to use C# and .NET instead. The result is XobotOS.

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 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.

Who doesn't love some sugar? Android 5, code-named "Lollipop," is Google's latest release of the Android OS for phones, tablets and wearable devices. There are a large number of new features, some you ...