Xamarin & MvvmCross Handbook
  • Introduction
  • Using MvvmCross to create your first Xamarin App
    • Creating the Core project
      • Understanding MVVM
      • Adding a simple Service
      • Adding a ViewModel
      • Adding an App class
    • Creating the Android project
      • Adding an Android Application class
      • Adding the Android Layout View (AXML)
      • Understanding the data-binding syntax
      • Adding the View class
    • Creating the iOS project
      • Updating the AppDelegate class
      • Adding the iOS View for the first ViewModel
      • Understanding the data-binding syntax
    • Creating the UWP project
      • Updating the App.xaml.cs and the App.xaml
      • Adding the UWP View
      • Understanding the data-binding syntax
    • Creating the REST API Service
      • Creating the models
      • Creating the interface and the implementation for the PostService
      • Creating the ViewModel
      • Adding the View for the Android project
      • Adding the View for the iOS project
      • Adding the View for the UWP project
    • Navigation
      • Creating the PostDetail View & ViewModel
      • Command with the parameter
      • Retrieving the param from the previous ViewModel
      • Understanding the IMvxNavigationService
      • Responding the events from different controls in the ListView
      • Retrieving the return result from the previous ViewModel
    • Creating the Xamarin.Forms project
      • Creating the Forms.UI project
      • Adding the App.xaml and the App.xaml.cs
      • Adding the View
      • Creating the Android project
      • Creating the iOS project
      • Creating the UWP project
      • Summary For Forms
    • Summary
  • Implementing MasterDetail layout in Xamarin.Forms by MvvmCross
    • Introduction
    • Creating the project by MvxScaffolding
    • Creating the MasterDetailPage
      • Creating the ViewModel
      • Creating the XAML file
    • Creating the MasterPage
      • Creating the ViewModel
      • Creating the XAML file
    • Creating the DetailPages
      • Creating the ViewModels
      • Creating the XAML files
    • Implementing the Menu functionalities
      • Displaying the MasterPage and the DetailPage
      • Setting the menu navigation
      • The other approaches to set the data-binding
    • Fine-tuning the UI
      • Adding the hamburger icon for iOS
      • Adding the header bar for Android and iOS
      • Adjust the height of the item for UWP
    • Summary
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  1. Using MvvmCross to create your first Xamarin App

Creating the Android project

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Create a new Blank Android project into the solution (do not select the Android XAML App template) and name it as MvvmCrossDemo.Droid, like this:

Pay attention on the different project templates. There are a couple of different templates here. Notice that we need the Android App (Xamarin), not the Android XAML App (Xamarin.Forms). I will describe Xamarin.Forms in the next sections, but not now.

The default Android target version is Android 8.1 (Oreo). If you need to edit it, right click the MvvmCrossDemo.Droid project and select Properties, then choose Application Tab, and update the Target Framework like this:

Delete the MainActivity.cs in the root folder and the Main.axmlin the resource/Layout folder. We do not need them.

Then install the MvvmCross package like we did in the MvvmCrossDemo.Core project. We also need to add the reference to the MvvmCrossDemo.Core project. You might encounter an error that is:

You need to add a reference to Mono.Android.Export.Dll when you use ExportAttribute or ExportFieldAttribute.

To fix it, we need to add the reference to Mono.Android.Export by Reference Manager: