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.

The team behind the open-source Mono implementation of the .NET framework has released a port of Android to the C# language. Xamarin, the development-platform company that has been building on ...

They’ve taken the source code for Android and modified it so that instead of running on a Dalvik Java virtual machine, it uses a virtual machine based on Mono, the open source implementation of 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 new operating system resulting from the port is being ...

Mono, an open source implementation of .NET runtime, is bringing Microsoft's development technologies to some unexpected places, including the iPhone, Android, and the Wii. According to Novell's ...