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Paul JohnsonUsing MVVM Light with your Xamarin Appshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2475-5_5

5. Converting Your Existing Apps

Paul Johnson1 
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Merseyside, UK
 

By now you should be far more confident in how MVVM Light works, how to organize your code, and how to create apps that run on all three platforms and make use of their own user interface designs. Now, however, it is time to convert your existing apps to work with MVVM Light.

Why would you want to do this? For a start, it means that you can release your application on the other platforms, and also it can be argued that it makes for a simpler life when it comes to upgrading the codebase, adding new functionality, and fixing bugs.

In this chapter, we will convert a very simple ...

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