Develop Android app using C

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Is it possible to write an android app using C   Is there an API or something  Is it free for personal and commercial development   What do I need to install to have android project template in my Visual Studio

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You should try something running Mono  its compatible with  NET    For game development  I recommend unity  http   unity3d com   for general aplications  http   xamarin com monoforandroid

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I have used the Unity 3D game engine for developing games for the PC and mobile phone  We use C  in this development

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Having used Mono  I would NOT recommend it  The Mono runtime is bundled with your app  so your apk ends up being bloated at more than 6MB  A better programming solution for C  would be dot42  Both Mono and dot42 are licensed products   Personally  I would recommend using Java with the IntelliJ IDEA dev environment  I say this for 3 reasons    There is so much Java code out there for Android already  do yourself a favour and don t re-invent the wheel  IDEA is similar enough to Visual Studio as to be a cinch to learn  it is made by JetBrains and the intelli-sense is better than VS  IDEA is free    I have been a C  programmer for 12 years and started developing for Android with C  but ended up jumping ship and going the Java route  The languages are so similar you really won t notice much of a learning curve   P S  If you want to use LINQ  serialization and other handy features that are native to C  then you just need to look for the equivalent java library

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There are indeed C  compilers for Android available  Even though I prefer developing Android Apps in Java  I can recommend MonoForAndroid  You find more information on http   xamarin com monoforandroid

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You could use Mono for Android   http   xamarin com monoforandroid  An alternative is dot42   http   www dot42 com   dot42 provides a free community licence as well as a professional licence for  399

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Here is a new one  Note  in Tech Preview stage   http   www dot42 com  It is basically a Visual Studio add-in that lets you compile your C  code directly to DEX code  This means there is no run-time requirement such as Mono   Disclosure  I work for this company    UPDATE  all sources are now on https   github com dot42

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Mono Touch is the answer   http   xamarin com monotouch

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