Currently MonoDroid (or “Mono for Android”) is lacking a unit testing framework. Since Xamarin (the guys behind MonoDroid) enable us to use C# on almost every platform it would be nice to be able to reuse C# unit tests written for Visual Studio on other platforms, such as Android.

This is the goal behind the MonoDroid Unit Testing Framework which can be obtained here:

https://bitbucket.org/mayastudios/monodroid-unittest/

Happy testing!

Mono for Android provides a window to view all Android log messages directly in Visual Studio. However, you can’t copy these log messages.

Since I’m a well-behaved programmer, I filed a bug report for this.

For now, I have to use monitor.bat from the Android SDK’s tools directory to work around this issue.

Yet another bug in Mono for Android: The app doesn’t terminate on uncaught exceptions in OnCreate().

https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8900

In all fairness, the people at Xamarin did a tremendous job in porting C#/.NET to Android. Still, there are (so many) bugs that are sometimes/often annoying.

So, here’s a link to my bug report of the day:

https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8899

Android provides an Application class.

Base class for those who need to maintain global application state.

Here’s how to create such a class in Mono for Android:

[Application]  // <-- Attribute required
class MyApp : Application {
  // Required constructor
  public MyApp(IntPtr javaReference, JniHandleOwnership transfer) 
    : base(javaReference, transfer) { }

  // Test method - not required
  public override void OnCreate() {
    base.OnCreate();
  }
}

Note: There can only be one such class in an Android application.

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