What is MonoDroid?
MonoDroid is a software development kit that allows developers to use the C# language to create mobile applications for Android-based devices.
MonoDroid exposes two sets of APIs, the core .NET APIs that C# developers are familiar with as well as a C# binding to Android’s native APIs exposed through the MonoDroid.* namespace.
You can use MonoDroid to develop applications that are distributed through the Android Application Stores or to deploy software to your personal hardware or the Android simulator.
What is included in MonoDroid?
MonoDroid consists of the core Mono runtime, the MonoDroid bindings to the native Android APIs, a Visual Studio 2010 plugin to develop Android applications and an SDK that contains the tools to build, debug and deploy your applications.
Our Visual Studio 2010 plugin allows developers to use Visual Studio 2010 to develop, debug and deploy their applications to an Android simulator, an Android device, or the Android Application Store.
Future versions of our MonoDevelop IDE will ship with support for MonoDroid.
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