Unity is a powerful and impressive tool. However I may be moving to MonoGame because Unity abstracts away (Advantage for some) the underlying platform and its APIs (Android, iPhone). I am aware of plugins, but they seem difficult to write and use. In addition someone using Unity probably knows C#/Boo and not Java and Objective C. By way of example objectives can someone explain how to overcome these obstacles. These examples would apply to other platforms as well.

1) I want my Android Unity app to have a "Broadcast Receiver" to listen to the "Intents" (ie. "Battery is Low"). Then I want my Unity character to say "Better Plug in your phone".

2) I would like to use the Androids speech recognition (http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/VoiceRecognition.html) to accurately decode the users speech.

As near as I can tell I would have to learn/write Java (Android)/Objective-C (iPhone). Then I would have to buy Unity Pro and wrap my Java/Objective-C calls in "C". Then I need to wrap the "C" function in C#, which loads the proper dll based upon platform.

Alternatively in MonoGame, I would call existing C# APIs which wrap Java/Objective-C APIs to create my application.

Finally, I would like to support Windows Phone platform and XBOX Indie development. From what I read this will probably never happen.

Thanks,