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Is it possible to develop a portable Xamarin mobile (Android) application with MonoDevelop on Linux?

I'm using Linux Mint, I have installed MonoDevelop with the guides MonoDevelop linux and MonoDevelop Ubuntu-Debian. After installing, I have expected, when creating a project, to find out a project type similar to "Xamarin Android Application" or something.

The only project type mentioning cross-platform + Xamarin is this: project creation

The guides on Xamarin site only applies to Xamarin Studio. I am lost, is there something broken in my installation or it is simply impossible to use MonoDevelop to develop Xamarin for mobile Android applications (and I totally misunderstood)?

In case, can you point me to a guide or resource about developing Xamarin portable mobile apps with MonoDevelop?

PS: There is one Stack Overflow question with last comment of year 2012, and, since then, lot things have changed: Xamarin merge with NET.foundation, the open source release of Xamarin SDK. Clearly I have misunderstood about Linux support availability. I have thought the question should be re-formulated. I hope this match the policies.

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Fabiano Tarlao
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    No, you can't build Xamarin Android apps on Linux. – Jason Jul 22 '16 at 22:47
  • Possible duplicate of [Android for MonoDevelop on Ubuntu](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10065513/android-for-monodevelop-on-ubuntu) – jgoldberger - MSFT Jul 22 '16 at 23:44
  • That question covers the same problem, the last comment is about 4 years ago: Since then few things have happened: xamarin merge with NET.foundation, the opensource release of xamarin SDK. Clearly I have misunderstood about Linux support availability. I have thought the question should be re-formulated. I hope this match the policies. I also wanted to improve things by providing more details and other sub-questions. – Fabiano Tarlao Jul 23 '16 at 10:02
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    @FabianoTarlao It is possible... There was someone on Twitter that had it `Xamarin.Android` compiling on Linux as he was the first to do it outside of the Xamarin devs. The Xamarin Studio Android Add-Ins are **not** open source and thus he was using Android Studio for axml editing, VSCode for C# editing along with a bunch of build/deploy scripts to glue it together. Not sure what his debug experience was like. You should ask on the gitter channel – SushiHangover Jul 23 '16 at 12:35
  • Thanks I'll check for the sake curiosity. I'm looking to something reliable-no-hussle and ready to use. :-) – Fabiano Tarlao Jul 24 '16 at 20:31

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Not yet, Xamarin Android will be available in Linux , but ETA is still unclear.

https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android

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    Technically it is now available for linux, but with zero support and zero tooling/IDE integration. So it pretty much useless to anyone. – trampster Oct 10 '19 at 02:23