Category Archives: Level – Beginner

Setting Fullscreen Activity (with no Status and Title Bars)

Sometimes we may need to display our activity in a fullscreen mode without the status and title bars in our applications. There are many ways to accomplish this purpose in Mono for Android applications, but we will show 2 of … Continue reading

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“Hello World” Application

It is very common in the programming world to build a “Hello World” application after the preliminaries such as the installations are out of the way. CREATE NEW PROJECT Fire up your Visual Studio and choose File > New Project … Continue reading

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Installation for Visual Studio

Mono for Android requires Visual Studio Professional or better, and does not support Visual Studio Express. This is because the express edition does not support plugins. DOWNLOAD First, download the installer via here: INSTALLATION Run the installer to initiate the … Continue reading

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Getting Started – What, How?

Android development is mostly with the Dalvik (custom Java virtual machine written by Google) and the Eclipse IDE. If you are a .NET developer and has been willing to develop an application for Android phones and tablets, Mono for Android … Continue reading

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