Mono For Android V1.2.0.24718.zip Jun 2026

Mono for Android v1.2.0.24718.zip contains the installation packages for an early version of the Mono for Android (now known as Xamarin.Android

For developers in 2011, obtaining this ZIP was often a matter of purchasing a commercial license from Novell or downloading a trial version from their now-defunct portal. Mono for Android v1.2.0.24718.zip

| Feature | v1.2.0.24718 | Modern Xamarin.Android | |---------|---------------|------------------------| | | Visual Studio 2010 (separate plugin) | Visual Studio 2019/2022 integrated | | Build performance | 30–60 seconds per incremental build | 5–10 seconds (with Fast Deployment) | | Linker | Basic (removed unused assemblies) | Advanced (linking SDK assemblies) | | AOT compilation | Experimental, buggy | Full support ( --aot flag) | | AndroidX support | None (old support libraries) | Full | | Generics performance | Slow (full reflection) | Fast (optimized trampolines) | Mono for Android v1