[mono-android] Free version: Emulator only? ... Bye bye

[Richard Wilburn]

1) I believe that there are mono parts that require the ARM instructions?
(I saw something about this on stackoverflow)
2) You can setup an app that will auto install other apps I would think.
This shouldnt be hugely hard. The community might have done or could do
something like that.

I think ultimately the android simulator somewhat hurts products like
monodroid and even native android to a slight lesser extent, so the best
strategy in my opinion is to bypass it. I don't own an android device yet
(I like android so likely will), so its quite annoying to have to go out
and buy one. Among many reasons, this is part of the reason I setup the
Mono.MVVM project on github (https://github.com/rhwilburn/MVVM-for-Mono),
so that I could develop against the windows mobile simulator, then have
minimal android specific code. Unfortunately its still a work in progress,
but we have some basic bindings working in a proof of concept style fashion.

-Richard.

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Daniele Salvatore Albano <
d.albano at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that support x86 isn't hard, because:
> - technically ICS and android 2.3.7 and superior works fine on x86
> - x86 emulator is in android sdk folder (tools/emulator-x86)
>
> More, android-x86 is an android distrubution, not officially
> supported, to have android on x86 platform.
>
> The true big problem is: where is the x86 toolchain for android?
>
> Without the x86 toolchain for android you can't really compile mono
> and other low level stuff for x86.
> Tecnically, if mono doesn't use bionic libc but uclibc statically
> compiled, a toolchain can be hand-compiled or can be compiled using,
> for example, crosstools-ng.
>
> 2011/12/21 Richard Wilburn <rhwilburn at gmail.com>:
> > I think the compromise here could be to put x86 android on the road map
> if
> > its possible? and put that ability into the trial.
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Tomas Finnøy <tjfinnoy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm just posting here to say I have quit my Monodroid experimentation.
> >>
> >> This is solely due to the fact that you have restricted the use of the
> >> free
> >> version to only work on the emulators. A very poor choice, indeed.
> >>
> >> The emulator is incredibly slow, and is close to impossible to test
> >> applications with if you want to use stuff as the gyro or gps.
> >>
> >> Why on earth did you not just add a timelimit or simply a splash
> screen?!?
> >> Why don't you want people to test your product well before opting to
> buy?
> >>
> >> I guess I'll go the free java route instead.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Hope it works out for you anyway.
> >>
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