Is Visual Basic compatible with Android?

Question

If something is written in VB is it compatible with android?

If so, can you give me some documentation?

Answer 1

No, you can not use programs written in visual basic on android. Android uses java. The closest you'll get is Mono For Android which currently doesn't support VB.NET.

Answer 2

EDIT: (7/12/2016): This is now supported via Xamarin

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I assume you are talking about VB.NET, then Mono does not yet support it.

Currently Mono for Android does not support Visual Basic.

We are looking at adding support for Visual Basic on upcoming versions of Mono for Android.

Technically, what needs to happen is the following: we need to provide the Visual Basic helper library (part of Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll) and compile it to work with the Mono for Android mscorlib.dll instead of the standard Mono 2.0 mscorlib.dll

With the above it will be possible to use Microsoft's Visual Studio to compile VB code that will run on Mono for Android. But we want to support Mono's own Visual Basic compiler, but that will also require the compiler to run using the Mono for Android mscorlib.dll. This is not difficult, but requires time to get done and integrate into our release process.

At this point there is no ETA on when the above will happen.

2: http://mono-android.net/FAQ

You could try however Basic4android if that suits your needs.