I am considering to start writing apps for android. Could some-one post list with all tools needed to start coding. My programming skills by language are C# - excellent Java - moderate c/c++ - beginner
I have heard something about Mono for android, whats the status of it? is it any good?
Also it would be helpful to hear how Java performs on android. Any other points and issues regarding the android platform are also welcomed.
I've just started myself and here is a good launching point for how to set up your IDE... http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html
This question has some more information about using Mono on Android.
However, I would strongly recommend using Java instead as it is the primary language for Android development. All the Google documentation and the vast majority of Android tutorials online (and Android questions on Stack Overflow) will be about Java development.
Android uses its own Java Virtual Machine called Dalvik and performance of Java apps on Android is excellent.
For more information there a lots of other good questions on Stack Overflow. Such as: