Creating an Application class in Mono for Android
Android provides an Application class. Base class for those who need to maintain global application state. Here’s how to create such a class in Mono for Android: [Application] // <-- Attribute...
View ArticleBug of the Day: Using Mono for Android
In all fairness, the people at Xamarin did a tremendous job in porting C#/.NET to Android. Still, there are (so many) bugs that are sometimes/often annoying. So, here’s a link to my bug report of the...
View ArticleBug of the Day: Using Mono for Android
Yet another bug in Mono for Android: The app doesn’t terminate on uncaught exceptions in OnCreate(). https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8900
View ArticleBug of the day: Copying not allowed
Mono for Android provides a window to view all Android log messages directly in Visual Studio. However, you can’t copy these log messages. Since I’m a well-behaved programmer, I filed a bug report for...
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Unit Testing Framework for MonoDroid
Currently MonoDroid (or “Mono for Android”) is lacking a unit testing framework. Since Xamarin (the guys behind MonoDroid) enable us to use C# on almost every platform it would be nice to be able to...
View ArticleBug of the Day: Fast Deployment
Today, I’ve been hunting down a bug in Mono for Android (4.4.55). This bug flooded the Android log with this entry (thousands of times): 02-04 17:09:32.010: W/(4300): Bad call to mono_mutex_lock...
View ArticleBug of the Day: NullReferenceException in AppDomain.UnhandledException handler
Today’s bug is provided by Mono for Android: NullReferenceException in AppDomain.UnhandledException handler
View ArticleBug of the Day: Mono for Android
Today’s bug is again sponsored by Mono for Android: Random “The type or namespace name ‘XXX’ could not be found” errors when building Mono for Android randomly produces “The type or namespace name...
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Accessing Java Classes from Mono for Android via JNI
Mono for Android let’s you write Android applications in a .NET language (for example, C#). It comes with wrappers for almost the entire Android API so building “standard” apps is easy enough....
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Native libraries in MonoDroid library projects
Currently, MonoDroid (Mono for Android) doesn’t support native libraries (or any other Android resource type) in library projects (bug report). Fortunately, they support normal .NET assembly...
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