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Now, with a patent promise amd a MIT license, any chance that android could build on .Net going forward? That would take more than a few non public meetings be

Now, with a patent promise amd a MIT license, any chance that android could build on .Net going forward? That would take more than a few non public meetings betweenn G and MS I guess but possibly better than having to tiptoe around Oracle in the long run?

ajross 12y ago
Only by either breaking compatibility or including two managed runtimes on every device. Really other than the C# language itself, there's not much to recommend the .NET core stuff over the ART runtime (which is in the process of replacing Dalvik). .NET has much broader library support, but that has to be balanced against the need to ship a lean(ish) runtime (c.f. the installed size of a Windows Phone image vs. Android!). And if Google really wanted to play games with source language (which they don't seem to), there is no shortage of very decent JVM-targetting environments either.