In Xamarin.Android our classes related to the UI have to derive from Activity as in traditional Android, here is the class declaration:

This worked too for string resources named String.xml and string.xml. Layout files are the same in both approaches, in fact, I copied the content of Main.axml (Xamarin) to layout_main.xmland the result was the same. Resources folder as the Manifest, the resources folder is the same with some minor changes in the naming conventions (uppercasing, full file names.), and as we will see later, the files itself are the same.Manifest the manifest is the same, except in when declaring the entrey point to our application, in traditional Android it is done in this file, in Xamarin.Android it is declared elsewhere.Application logic following the concept of Solution, when using C# we could easily place our application logic in another project, meanwhile, using Java the alternative is to create another package.In Android Studio the class MainActivity.java is in the package whereas in Xamarin Studio the class `MainActivity.cs` is directly in the Solution's root. As you might know in Java exist the concept of Packages, and it is strongly asociated to the underlying folder structure. Activities (and other UI related code stuff).I'll start with the project structure: Project structure To create this post I used Android Studio 1.1.0 y Xamarin Studio 5.7.2.Įven though the differences are very subtle, and the greatest one of everyone lies in the code, they do exist. It has been a while since I did an Android app but today I tried to remember my little knowledge to compare traditional Android Development and Xamarin.Android.

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