[sochinochi]

Xamarin.Android apps do not compile to Dalvik bytecode. Every app ships with MonoVM which runs side-by-side with Dalvik.

[cwyers]

Thank you for the correction; I seem to have had Xamarin on Android confused with Xamarin on iOS, which does compile to native code.[1]

1) http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/ios/advanced_topics/limitatio...