Mono for Android Development with MonoDevelop

This section covers developing a basic “Hello Android” application for your Android device working with the Android plug-in for MonoDevelop. If you skipped the Visual Studio section because you are on a Mac or use MonoDevelop anyway, I would encourage you to read the Visual Studio section because it covers some generally applicable concepts, but if you want to jump right in and catch up along the way you should be fine.

General Setup

Installing the development environment on the Mac is straightforward. There are six steps to the process:

• Install the Android SDK: This can be found at http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. This is Java-based and leverages the Java SDK installed by default on OSX.