CODEWITHSUNDEEP
xamarin.android
user1169502
user1169502

Reputation: 398

Visual Studio 2010 or MonoDevelop

I'm very new to Mono for Android and am having issues getting started - specifically as a new user I tend to have to step through code to ensure that it is doing what I want. This is extremely slow using VS 2010 and the latest version of Mono for Android. Just wondering if MonoDevelop will improve matters and whether it is as easy to develop using MonoDevelop rather than VS 2010 which is my normal tool.

Thanks for any advice

Upvotes: 1

Views: 831

Answers (2)

Strillo
Strillo

Reputation: 2972

As far as i know the slowness is not due to Visual Studio but to the Android Emulator itself.

Debugging Monodroid on a physical device is lots faster with either VS or MonoDevelop, but then you need to buy a license to be able to deploy to anything else than the emulator..

I would keep using Visual Studio as it's far more complete and stable than MonoDevelop. if performances are really an issue you might need to consider purchasing a license for Monodroid and use a physical Android device.

Upvotes: 2

Trevor de Koekkoek
Trevor de Koekkoek

Reputation: 2506

From my experience Mono Develop is more lightweight, but also more buggy. For the moment I am using Visual Studio. It compiles resources right away whereas Mono Develop sometimes does not recognize when I've added a resource. But you are right about the debugger. It is painfully slow. Other than the debugger I have found developing in MonoDroid to be fairly productive.

Upvotes: 0

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