Xamarin the company behind Mono the .NET runtime for Linux, iOS, MacOS and Android has just announced that they got the Java part of Android ported to C# via machine translation. They claim some serious performance gains over Dalvik. For them, this is an experiment that they are not planning to focus on, but they will be using some of the technologies in Mono for Android. As Part of the project they improved the automated Java to C# translator “Sharpen”. Their version of Sharpen besides the code of the Android port itself is available on Github.