Using MonoTouch / Mono for Android with Eclipse IDE?

It's likely easy for Mono for Android which uses an msbuild system (tasks) as Mono provides a compatible tool, called xbuild but it won't be easy for MonoTouch.

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Currently I am doing my first steps with MonoTouch and would like to continue with Mono for Android soon. So far I am using the MonoDevelop IDE, but this is lacking lots of the features I got used to when using Eclipse. How difficult would it be to integrate MonoTouch / Mono for Android with Eclipse?

This would solve a lot of problems for me :) eclipse mono monotouch monodevelop monodroid link|improve this question edited Mar 9 at 2:43poupou12.2k3743 asked Mar 8 at 22:06Jens-Uwe Rumstich61.

If you could file feature requests for MonoDevelop at bugzilla.xamarin.com that would be great. – mhutch Mar 9 at 2:58 there are lots of small things here and there... - the monodevelop support for subversion is very strange and unlogical – Jens-Uwe Rumstich Mar 9 at 20:17.

It's likely easy for Mono for Android which uses an msbuild system (tasks) as Mono provides a compatible tool, called xbuild but it won't be easy for MonoTouch. MonoTouch provides a tool, mtouch that does most (but not all) of the work to build iOS applications. You can see how it's used if you look at the Build Output inside MonoDevelop (inside the Error List Pad).

There are a few steps that are done by MonoDevelop iPhone Addin. Some of them can also be done using mtouch - but not all of them (it also depends on your project). The following questions talks about a similar subject (using msbuild to drive MonoTouch builds).

MonoTouch: custom msbuild task error What are the complete set of steps to fully build a Monotouch app bundle from the command line?

There is a whole lot of logic for building MonoTouch apps inside of MonoDevelop such as Info. Plist and Entitlements. Plist merging, compiling of xibs, compressing of icons, signing of packages, creation of IPAs, etc. It's on our TODO list to port the existing build functionality over to msbuild tasks but it isn't likely to happen anytime soon as we have a lot more important things to implement/fix first.

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