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Using MVVM Light with your Xamarin Apps

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. Paul Johnson

    1. Merseyside, United Kingdom

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  • Covers the popular MVVM development design pattern with a focus on Xamarin.Forms
  • Provides step-by-step demos
  • Includes application development for iOS, Android, and Windows phone

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Installing MVVM Light

    • Paul Johnson
    Pages 1-15

  3. Your First MVVM Light Mobile App

    • Paul Johnson
    Pages 17-47

  4. Inversion of Control (IoC) & Messaging

    • Paul Johnson
    Pages 49-65

  5. Adding Functionality

    • Paul Johnson
    Pages 67-92

  6. Converting Your Existing Apps

    • Paul Johnson
    Pages 93-116

  7. The Outside World

    • Paul Johnson
    Pages 117-132

  8. Unit Testing

    • Paul Johnson
    Pages 133-155

  9. Using Xamarin Forms

    • Paul Johnson
    Pages 157-181

  10. Rounding Things Off

    • Paul Johnson
    Pages 183-195

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 197-200
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About this book

Learn how to use the popular MVVM Light development framework with a focus on reliable, maintainable code that can be deployed across any of the .NET-supported mobile platforms. Clear examples are provided of the advantages of the MVVM platform along with step-by-step demonstrations of how to create applications at different levels of complexity. Application development is covered for iOS, Android, and Windows phone (UWP) using MVVM Light as the central framework.

The model-view-view-model (MVVM) pattern is valued by many developers as an excellent way to create sophisticated modern applications. Its clear separation of presentation and business logic produces a clean implementation that promotes speed, scalability, and code reuse in applications with a complex UI. These characteristics have long been highly valued by WPF developers, and now that benefit is available to Xamarin developers, too.

What You'll Learn

  • Set up and install MVVM Light
  • Understand the advantages and disadvantages of MVVM
  • Discover why inversion of control is important in MVVM
  • Conduct unit testing of MVVM apps
  • Convert your existing apps to use MVVM
  • Use MVVM Light within a Xamarin Forms app
  • Use webservices
  • Be introduced to the new .NET 2.0 Standard Class Library and how to use MVVM Light with it

Authors and Affiliations

  • Merseyside, United Kingdom

    Paul Johnson

About the author

Paul Johnson is a mobile software developer. He has written code for many companies, including TfL, NHS, and FarmApps. Paul lives with his wife and daughter, along with a variety of pets. He loves to travel, with Australia as a favorite destination. He is an avid scuba diver. Paul has a love of retro computing, especially the old 8-bit home micros of the 1980s. 



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