Is it possible to code Android Programming in Visual Studio?

Question

I have a sound knowledge of Visual C#.NET. And I want to program Android Apps. But as I am too much familiar with visual studio environment, therefore I want to know the way to program Android in Visual C#.NET language.

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But i found nothing useful from that.

Answer 1

Well the cleanest solution is probably Xamarin: http://xamarin.com/

But that costs money.

You can develop in visual studio in Java using the following: https://code.google.com/p/vs-android/

You can develop in C# for free for Android using Mono, although it is not in Visual Studio: http://monodevelop.com/Download/Mono_For_Android

IMHO, Java is very similar to C# so you might be better off learning the intended way to program Android applications than trying to fight it.