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.

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 ...

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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.