Xamarin in Action

Chapter 4. Hello again, MVVM—understanding and enhancing our simple MVVM app

This chapter covers

• A detailed look into the code of the Hello Cross-Platform World app from chapter 2
• MvvmCross classes that provide a base implementation of a view model, a command, and some cross-platform app logic
• How to use MvvmCross to bind iOS and Android views to the view model
• Using Xamarin plugins to add cross-platform wrappers around platform-specific functionality
• Using inversion of control to loosely couple your code for unit testing
• Creating and binding a command
• Adding code to the view model to make your app speak to you

4.1. A deeper dive into our Hello Cross-Platform World app

Now that we’ve covered MVVM in detail, it’s a good opportunity to review ...