Google ships Mono with Android 3.1

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It's not clear what this means yet but libmono.so is shipping with the default Android 3.1 build and Miguel de Icaza seems to confirm that Mono is shipping as part of Android.

http://twitter.com/#!/migueldeicaza/status/68435231035756544

Perhaps this is nothing more than Android trying to reduce the average download size of apps. Does Android have a history of doing this with popular frameworks?

I don't get what this is for. Is it to make it easier to deploy apps built using Mono for Android?

http://mono-android.net/

Seems to be more likely about supporting Silverlight on Android:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/04/Silverlight-Android

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