Help silverlight on android

[amandus88]

Ik have some webapplications that only works with silverlight. Has someone a solution for android because i like to use it from an android tab.

Regards

Pierre

 

[Rukbat]

Microsoft would have to write a Silverlight interpreter for Android. Somehow I don't see that happening. (And if someone else tried to do it, MS's legal department would be working overtime.)

 

[Szadzik]

See here:

Microsoft Silverlight Coming to Android! - xda-developers

 

[lotus49]

That post was from 2011.

I am a bit sceptical about this. After more than two years, it hasn't appeared which suggests it never will but you never know.

 

[colchiro]

It's dead in the water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_(runtime)

In April 2011, the Moonlight team demonstrated Moonlight running on Android tablets and phones at the MIX11 Web Developers conference in Las Vegas.

Shortly after the April 2011 release, Attachmate, parent to developer Mono, laid off an undisclosed number of Mono employees and announced a deal with startup Xamarin. At that time, Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman affirmed their commitment to the Moonlight project; however, there have been no outward signs of any further development since the new partnership. Their published road map is quite out of date and the previously active release schedule (including nightly builds) has completely ceased since the new partnership was formed.

In December 2011 Miguel de Icaza announced that work on Moonlight had stopped with no future plans. He explained that, although there was always some bloat, complication and over-engineering in the Silverlight vision, Microsoft had "cut the air supply" to it by omitting cross-platform components, making it a web-only plugin, and including Windows-only features. He advised developers to separate user interface code from the rest of their application development to ensure "a great UI experience on every platform (Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows and Web)" without being dependent on third party APIs.