CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c#androidxamarinmonogame
Paul Michaels
Paul Michaels

Reputation: 16695

Converting a WIndows Store MonoGame app to Android

I'm very new to Xamarin. I have a few published Windows Store apps and want to convert them to Android. I'm attempting to use Xamarin for this. I'm just using the free version of Xamarin. Here's where I am so far:

I am trying two apps - one was build with Monogame and one is just build on the WinRT framework. I have managed to get them both into Xamarin studio, basically by hacking the csproj files.

I'm getting build errors because it's missing references. There does appear to be some equivalent Mono / .Net4 libraries, but things like Storage seem to be missing.

So, my question is: am I going about this the right way and, if so, am I missing a step ("convert dependencies" or something)?

If I'm not going about this the right way then how should I be doing this (I found very few online resources on this subject)?

EDIT:

The following are some specific errors that I'm getting from the Xamarin App:

Reference Errors

And my references:

References

EDIT:

After some further research, the only dependency I can't explain as missing is Microsoft.Xna.*. The others all have different implementations on Android / iOS.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1068

Answers (2)

Daniel Nelson
Daniel Nelson

Reputation: 366

You will be able to use much of your existing code with Xamarin.

However, the errors you are getting with those specific libraries are because they do not exist for Xamarin in iOS and Android. So whatever functionality you had you will need to rework using libraries that are available.

For example, instead of using Windows.Storage you would use Android.OS.Storage.

See their documentation for details: http://androidapi.xamarin.com/index.aspx?link=N%3AAndroid.OS.Storage

Edit For XNA all of that should port fine if you use MonoGame: https://github.com/mono/MonoGame/wiki

I'm not sure why it's not bundled in Xamarin, but that will hook you up.

Edit This is taken from Xamarin documentation found here: http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/cocos2d_xna/cocos2dxna_tutorial/

After creating the project, you need to add the various Cocos2D-XNA dependencies to the solution. Add the following projects from the location where you downloaded the Cocos2D-XNA and MonoGame source:

box2d.iOS – 2D physics library. We’ll use this in later tutorials.
cocos2d.iOS – Cocos2D-XNA for iOS.
Lidgren.Network.iOS – Networking library used by MonoGame.
MonoGame.Framework.iOS – MonoGame for iOS.

Upvotes: 2

Phillip Wells
Phillip Wells

Reputation: 119

This video may answer your question. You will most likely need to replace the reference with a PCL equivalent if one exists.

http://developer.xamarin.com/videos/cross-platform/any/

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions