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Paul JohnsonUsing MVVM Light with your Xamarin Appshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2475-5_4

4. Adding Functionality

Paul Johnson1 
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Merseyside, UK
 

Your mobile phone is a powerful piece of equipment. Not only does it contain an extremely fast processor, but it also has the ability to determine your location, access external services that can be used to extend your applications’ functionality, make calls (obviously), and store data as well as a pile of other useful facilities.

In this chapter, we shall look at the integration of a simple SQLite database within your application as well as at a webservice and using some of the common phone functions and functionality (such as accessing the address book and accessing files).

Adding ...

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