Hello guys, are here any programmers on Android devices? I'm planning to do some simple synthesizer for my bachelor thesis.
But my knowledge about programming on mobiles is zero :D.
I heard about Xamarin, programming on all platforms at once, but I'm not sure if it's possible to make with it a synthesizer which is working on all platforms. But it's C#, which is better for me than Java.
I have Android mobile, so main focus will be on Android, but for future it would be awesome to have it also on other platforms.

Anyone experienced about this? I would be grateful for any help

Thank you

 

Is your focus programming on mobile devices or is it about audio synthesis?

In any case, Daniel Iglesia has developed a very nice and free programming environment with good audio and midi support on both Android and iOS:
It's called MobMuPlat and it's the mobile counterpart of PureData.
You can develop your audio/midi application on a Win/Mac/Linux machine with PD-Vanilla, and using MobMuPlat, you design a UI for it and run it on your mobile device.

See http://mobmuplat.com and http://www.iglesiaintermedia.com for more info and great other stuff.

MobMuPlat comes with example FX and synths, so you don't have to start from scratch, let alone the huge PD community behind it.

Good luck!

 

I'm a mob developer but not strictly for audio apps...
Mobile development is generally "pain in ass" if you ask me.
My advice, go native ... avoid multi practical solutions (all platforms with one click), so android studio for android, and xcode for iOS, those are the two different worlds.
Other thing, mobile development has two aspects

• graphical
• functional

and it's very different from web development or desktop development. What I want to say, if you go first with functional aspect and forget about graphical design you may come to black hole and you may go to the point where you must rewriting all the code etc... The same rule is for vice versa, go first with GUI and then go to functional
iOS is, by my experience a little bit easier for developing, at the other side Android is really pain in ass with multi threading, background processing etc...
On iOS I prefer Swift language (it's more readable, and understandable then the Obj-C), but you must have enough knowledge of Obj-C too. Android is pure Java and it's very ugly but powerful.
Most common libs for iOS:

• MoMu STK http://momu.stanford.edu/stk/
• AudioKit.IO http://audiokit.io/features/

In my company, I'm in charge of iOS development (Android not much, just some bug fixing) so I can give you better advice for iOS and XCode.

 

Thank you guys both!
fiction: Main focus is on programming, thanks for links
nikon: Yeah, firstly I want to make GUI with some keys and then develop functional part. Thank you very much for platform info, so Xamarin is bad idea.