Foreword

Mono for Android is a blend of two fascinating and incredibly enjoyable worlds: the C# language and the Android operating system. We designed Mono for Android to bring those two universes together, and we did this by tapping into years of experience designing and implementing languages, APIs, and bindings.

Our passion for the Android OS is very simple to explain: Like everyone else we were smitten by the growth rate of the platform, the well-thought-out design, and the powerful development platform. This combination was hard to resist.

Our love for C# goes back to the year 2000, when Microsoft unveiled their new language to the world. And just like C# rocked the Windows world, it rocked our world. By the year 2000 we had been working on the GNOME Desktop and the Evolution mail client for Linux for a few years, and we had learned our share of lessons in developing desktop applications.