Mixing C# and Java languages

Question

My goal is to make an android application, which prints a "hello world" text to logcat from C#. I'm thinking of something like this in C#:

using MyLibrary;
namespace Hello
{
    public class HelloWorldClass
    {
        public HelloWorldClass()
        {
            MyLibrary.print("hello world");
        }
    }
}

then in eclipse project:

import Hello;
public class MainActivity extends Activity
{
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        Hello something = new Hello(); // it would print "hello world" to logcat
    }
}

how can I create that "MyLibrary"? Any related links, references or something that could help?

It doesn't work like that. C# and Java have different compilers, different runtime environments. You either need some IPC or link them through native linking, not sure if it will work for Android. — Andrey, Jul 15 '13 at 10:40
How else can I "program" in c#, but for android? Logcat is android os log — Gintas_, Jul 15 '13 at 10:41
what you can do is create a wcf service and consume using Java — Zaki, Jul 15 '13 at 10:42
This is too expensive, I want to make something similar myself if possible. — Gintas_, Jul 15 '13 at 10:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 15 '13 at 10:44

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Consider using Mono for Android: http://xamarin.com/monoforandroid But it has some disadvantages. Main is Extreme memory consumtion (at least two times more memory is consumed) because it starts its own VM.

answered Jul 15 '13 at 10:44

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