Building an Android app using .NET
framework
Yes, you
read the right. Apart from building windows app you can also build Android app
using .NET framework. So, here I am going to tell which software you can use
for it.
Visual
studio makes it easy to build apps for Android. You can build your app using C#
and .NET framework, HTML and JavaScript, C++.To build an app you can use Xamarin in visual studio.
To get started,
install Visual Studio 2015, select the Custom option in the installer, and check the
box under Cross
Platform Mobile Development > C#/.NET (Xamarin). You can
also start with the Xamarin Installer, which is required to install Xamarin for Visual Studio 2013.
If you already have Visual Studio 2015 installed, run the
installer from Control Panel
> Programs and Features and
select the same Custom option for Xamarin as above.
When you’re done, project templates appear in the New Project dialog
box. The easiest way to find Xamarin templates is to just search on
"Xamarin."
Xamarin exposes the native functionality of Android as .NET
objects. Thus your apps have full access to native APIs and native user
controls, and they’re just as responsive as apps written in the native platform
languages.
When you’re ready to run your app and see how it looks, you can
use the Visual Studio Emulator for Android or the Android SDK emulator. You can
also use tethered Android devices directly.
So give
Xamarin a try – download the trial version and give it a shot. Build your
android apps with no knowledge on Android platform or the way it works.
Building games using .NET framework
People enjoy
new games and let me tell you that you can also build a cross-platform game or
immersive graphical app for android, iOS and windows using visual studio tools
for unity. It’s a popular cross-platform game/graphics engine and development
environment for apps that run on iOS, Android and other platforms.
What actually unity is?
Unity is a 2D/3D engine
and framework that gives you a system for designing game or app scenes for 2D,
2.5D and 3D. Unity supports all major 3D applications and many audio formats,
and even understands the Photoshop .psd format so you can just drop a .psd file
into a Unity project. Unity allows you to import and assemble assets, write
code to interact with your objects, create or import animations for use with an
advanced animation system, and much more.
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