On Dec 1, 2012, at 5:32 AM, huseyin cakir <huseyin.caki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been developing applications for linux/windows by using mono and
> gtk-sharp. I wonder if there is a way to get these apps. on android by using
> monodroid or do i have to use android.sdk?
Short version: No, you should use Mono for Android or the Android SDK.
Long version: There is no GTK+ backend to target Android (afaik). Even if there
were, you'd likely need to redo all your layout.
The only way to make this work would be to run an X11 server on the device, and
use the normal GTK+ X11 backend. (There _are_ X11 servers on the Android store,
so this isn't impossible... Possibly insane, or a _great_ April Fools hack [0],
but not impossible...)
There are two problems with this approach:
1. The Mono for Android assemblies are not fully compatible with desktop .NET.
They're a superset of Silverlight, so large swaths of classes are missing (e.g.
System.Configuration). It may not be possible to run a Gtk# app unchanged w/o
recompiling all of Gtk# and your application.
2. A desktop app + X11 will be a _terrible_ user experience.
The sane approach is to separate out your app logic from your GUI code
(MVC/MVVM/etc. come in handy here), "port" your core app logic onto Mono for
Android, and write a new GUI using Android-native types. This is the approach
take by apps such as TouchDraw, iCircuit, and Rdio:
http://praeclarum.org/post/15789866032/icircuit-code-reuse-part-trois
http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/11/27/touchdraw-for-android-now-available/
- Jon
[0]: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/03/08/26/2042206/gtk-tty-port
Pity the screenshots & source are no longer compatible; it was a GTK+ 2.0
backend for curses support, allowing you to run GTK+ apps on a console w/o a
framebuffer or X11.
In short, hilariously insane.
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