Using Mvvm Light With Your Xamarin Apps

Learn the popular MVVM development framework with a focus on Xamarin.Forms. Clear examples are provided of the advantages of MVVM 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 using mvvmlight and mvvmcross as the libraries. 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 valuable to WPF developers, and now that benefit is available to Xamarin developers, too. What You'll Learn Set up and install MVVM Understand the advantages and disadvantages of MVVM Discover why inversion of control is important in MVVM Conduct unit testing of MVVM apps Who This Book Is For Experienced developers with knowledge of development using the Xamarin framework. Developers should have a working knowledge of .NET and be familiar with app development. It is expected that the user will know how to set up Xamarin Studio (or Visual Studio).

• | Author: Paul Johnson
• | Publisher: Apress
• | Publication Date: Dec 09, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 217 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Computers
• | ISBN-10: 1484224744
• | ISBN-13: 9781484224748