Is it possible to create a cross-platform shared library with MonoDroid and MonoTouch that can be used by non-Mono developers?

Question

We have a proprietary piece of hardware which we are looking to release as a phone peripheral.

We have started writing a cross-platform mobile app that interfaces with t

Answer 1

The answer is no for both cases, it is not possible to create managed libraries that non-managed apps can use, neither on MonoTouch nor or Mono for Android.

This is because the managed libraries depend heavily on the managed runtime, they're not standalone libraries.

Answer 2

I have the exact same question as you actually ... On iOS, from what I was able to gather from Xamarin, it's possible but not supported.Though, I am still waiting for an example :/

From what I understood, monodevelop is able to compile a native ARM library that can be used by an objectiveC source by doing something like that :

/Developer/MonoTouch/usr/bin/mtouch --linksdkonly --xcode=output_dir MyAssembly.exe

In your XCode project,it seems that you need to use the Mono-Embedding-API.

http://docs.go-mono.com/?link=root:/embed

It would be nice if xamarin could provide a source example because it's a highly needed feature for a toolkit like this!