Mono and Dalvik side by side
As you can recall from, Chapter 1, The Anatomy of an Android App, Android apps run within the Dalvik VM, and we now know that Mono apps run within the Mono CLR. So how does a Xamarin.Android app run? A simple answer is that it uses both the Mono CLR and the Dalvik VM. The following diagram depicts how the runtimes coexist:
Xamarin.Android applications use both Mono CLR and the Dalvik VM side by side and run on top of the Linux kernel. The .Net API resides as a part of the Mono CLR and provides a set of classes (for example, System.Data, System.Net, System.IO, and so on.) to access various device OS features. However, ...
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