Xamarin & MvvmCross Handbook
Xamarin & MvvmCross Handbook
GitHub repo for the demo
GitHub repo for this book
Introduction
Using MvvmCross to create your first Xamarin App
Creating the Core project
Creating the Android project
Creating the iOS project
Creating the UWP project
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 Xamarin.Forms project
Summary
Implementing MasterDetail layout in Xamarin.Forms by MvvmCross
Introduction
Creating the project by MvxScaffolding
Creating the MasterDetailPage
Creating the MasterPage
Creating the DetailPages
Implementing the Menu functionalities
Fine-tuning the UI
Summary
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Creating the REST API Service

I am going to show how to call a REST API to get the data for the ViewModel. There is a great fake online REST API for testing and prototyping: https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com. For example, if we call this URL: https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts, we will get the data like this:

[
  {
    "userId": 1,
    "id": 1,
    "title": "sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit",
    "body": "quia et suscipit\nsuscipit recusandae consequuntur expedita et cum\nreprehenderit molestiae ut ut quas totam\nnostrum rerum est autem sunt rem eveniet architecto"
  },
  {
    "userId": 1,
    "id": 2,
    "title": "qui est esse",
    "body": "est rerum tempore vitae\nsequi sint nihil reprehenderit dolor beatae ea dolores neque\nfugiat blanditiis voluptate porro vel nihil molestiae ut reiciendis\nqui aperiam non debitis possimus qui neque nisi nulla"
  }
]
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