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
  2. Creating the Xamarin.Forms project

Summary For Forms

Regarding the Xamarin.Forms demo, we stop here. You can continue to build the PostList View and the PostDetail View, etc. That is easy, isn’t it? For the Xamarin.Forms, we can benefit from the existed resources so that we just need to create the UI by XAML for all platforms and config the target projects to use the logic in the MvvmCrossDemo.Core project and the UI hosted in the MvvmCrossDemo.Forms.UI project. This approach can help you maximize the code-sharing of both the UI and the logic, especially if you are an experienced .NET developer (with XAML background).

But what I need to emphasize here is that Xamarin.Forms is not the silver bullet for cross-platform development. You ought to think carefully about your real scenario. If you need to fine tune the UI styles or call a big deal of complex native hardware functionalities (including specific-platforms APIs) targeting the specific platforms, probably the Xamarin Native is the better choice.

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