Does or will monodroid support async await?

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I've written an app in wp7, handling most of the asynchroneous tasks with await. I was asked to look into porting it to Android. Fortunately I have MonoDroid at hand, so I don't have to dust off my Java. But I just realized, I cannot reuse my code, as MonoDroid is up to date until .NET 4.0 which doesn't include the compiler for async.

I've found this post from december, saying MonoDroid will have async soon. Any news as to WHEN?

C# async support is part of .NET 4.5, not 4.0. you question is a little premature, at least until Microsoft release .NET 4.5 — jcwmoore, Jan 21 '12 at 19:33
@jcwmoore - async/await is part of C# 5 (being a 'compiler trick' on top of TPL for the most part) and not .NET 4.5 per se. In particular, you can use it with .NET 4 and Silverlight 5 with the Async CTP, and will likely be able to do so with VS11 Beta once the .NET4/SL5 bits are updated, as per http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2012/03/03/10277166.aspx — James Manning, Mar 04 '12 at 17:21
I guess it will come when Mono 3.0 will be added to Monodroid? — balint, Nov 05 '12 at 17:42

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 07 '12 at 14:33

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This article describe how to use Mono 2.11 (or later) tools which provide support for async/await keywords.

http://www.fizzylogic.nl/2012/05/04/adding-asyncawait-support-to-your-mono-for-android-projects/

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answered Jun 07 '12 at 09:37

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 04 '12 at 17:18

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I pinged Miguel on twitter about it, and while it will be coming, it's not there yet (at least as of yesterday, March 3rd :)

https://twitter.com/#!/migueldeicaza/status/176033097555517440

answered Mar 04 '12 at 17:18

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Does or will monodroid support async await?

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