Introduction

Welcome to the Busy Coder in Dot42 Blog.  This blog will record my efforts to translate the tutorials and samples from the Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development into C# using Dot42.  I have finished the first few tutorials and have already run into a few issues, but on the whole, I think this can be a resource for people who want to learn more about Dot42 and maybe even learn Android programming.  This is not, however, intended to replace the information in the Busy Coder's Guide.  Please subscribe and get access to the book in order to get full advantage from this blog.  Without the book, I hope this is still a good place to reference how to accomplish certain basic (and maybe advanced) tasks using C# and Dot42.

So, on to the problems.  The biggest problem hit hard in Tutorial #6 with the addition of ActionBarSherlock.  Dot42 cannot handle adding libraries by source, and ActionBarSherlock cannot be compiled into a .jar file.  What this means is that I will not be able to translate these tutorials with much pre-Ice Cream Sandwich compatibility.  I don't think this will ultimately be as big of a problem now that Gingerbread is down to about 25%.