Mono framework and Android Legacy in Visual Studio 2022 for Mac

Claudiu Alex 141 Reputation points
2022-05-24T21:39:57.823+00:00

Good evening,

I own a MacBook Pro with M1 chip. Why when I install Android Legacy tools in Visual Studio for Mac 2022, it install also Mono Framework ? What means legacy for Android Xamarin ? Does it affect functionality of Visual Studio for Native Mac M1 ? I noticed that Xamarin Profiler appears as Intel Platform.

Sincerely yours,
Claudiu Alex

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  1. Leon Lu (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 68,491 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2022-05-25T07:43:00.993+00:00

    If you install Xamarin function in the vs installer, it will install mono framework. please see this document:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/get-started/what-is-xamarin#xamarinandroid

    Xamarin.Android applications run within the Mono execution environment, side by side with the Android Runtime (ART) virtual machine. Xamarin provides .NET bindings to the Android.* and Java.* namespaces. >The Mono execution environment calls into these namespaces via Managed Callable Wrappers (MCW) and provides Android Callable Wrappers (ACW) to the ART, allowing both environments to invoke code in >each other.

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