While MonoDroid makes it possible to write Android applications using .NET, what happens if you want to make use of existing third party Java libraries in your app? In this post I’ll talk about what your options are, and provide an example of how to serve ads from AdMob in your MonoDroid application using the standard AdMob Java library.
In the month of February I had the opportunity to speak to a lot of people about MonoDroid. Down in New Jersey I spoke to the NJDOTNET group, and then in New York I talked MonoDroid at the NYC Code…
READ MOREThe stock database available in Android is SQLite, and chances are you’ll find yourself wanting to use it in your applications. But how do you go about doing so? In this post I’ll go over some options for accessing the…
READ MOREJust because a mobile application needs to be (or should be, in most cases) small and lightweight doesn’t mean we should set aside best practices like Inversion of Control containers when building our apps. I don’t want this to…
READ MOREIf you’ve been doing mobile development, you probably know all about the problem of having to target multiple platforms, along with the languages each one requires. Having to rewrite and support essentially the same code on different platforms flat…
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