Hi mel I think it's the language barrier - I felt you were hinting at "it's not appropriate to complain" - and I think it's appropriate if you have just cause.
We have the situation where you can call some code and don't really know whether it will work until you've tried (e.g. getting the network information, or wcf). There's also inexplicable strange behavior (see my posts with regards to instantiating my singleton object from a background thread), or Data Contract Serializers being able to deserialize a json string on PC, but failing on the same json string on MonoDroid (will file a bug on that and post here - I've had to manually rewrite json data I get from GCM because somewhere along the way it inverts my keys and values in a dictionary object). If I just begrudgingly develop workarounds and never tell Xamarin about issues I'm facing, the product cannot get better. I realize I'm a n00b and have to go through the learning curve - but I've gone PC to mobile client before many eons ago, and the process from PC to PocketPC was in a lot of ways a much better experience. You have a list of APis that are supported so you can pick and chose what to use for the PC client (lowest common denominator), and whatever API you use that has been marked as working on the mobile platform will work. There was some funkyness, but the process was essentially smooth. I erroneously assumed it would be similar with M4A. I'm hoping that M4A will continue to improve so that our experience will get smoother over time. The premise of the product is amazing, the execution, imho, doesn't fully live up to it, yet. Not to say that Android in itself does, either (my list of things that absolutely should change is as long in Android 4.1 as it was when I got my first iPhone) - but there's nothing that Xamarin can do about limitations of the underlying OS. Now to file that bug... Cheers Stephan What I did not understand is "sitting on my mouth"... It felt like I'm hiding some info... And who_the_fake am i?? cheers -- View this message in context: http://mono-for-android.1047100.n5.nabble.com/Stepping-into-standard-NET-libs-tp5711361p5711593.html Sent from the Mono for Android mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Monodroid mailing list Monodroid@lists.ximian.com UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid
