PelleRavn/MvvmCross

The Mvvm Platform for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, WindowsPhone, WindowsStore, WPF and Mac. Includes databinding support for Android XML, for iOS XIBs and for MonoTouch.Dialog.

MvvmCross

MvvmCross is a cross-platform mvvm framework that enables developers to create cross platform apps. Additional support is available for Xamarin.Forms and the Android support library. Lots of plugins are available as well.

Documentation & blog

• See our official website for an extensive set of documentation!
• To stay up-to-date with the latest news go to the MvvmCross blog!

Get started

A quick way to get started is to use the Visual Studio MvvmCross Ninja Coder Extension - download it from Visual Studio Gallery

For manual project creation install the necessary packages from Nuget

Questions & support

• StackOverflow
• Xamarin forums
• Slack join the mvvmcross channel after you are in

Documentation and Examples

The MvvmCross-Samples repo contains the latest samples. See the MvvmCross Wiki for additional articles and information.

Samples and Videos:

• N Plus 1 Videos Of MvvmCross
• MvvmCross Tutorials
• Evolve 2013 talk
• NDC 2013 talk
• Xaminar - 2012
• MvvmCross and Azure - 2012

The Tip Calc tutorial:

• A first app
• The Core Project
• A Xamarin.Android UI project
• A Xamarin.iOS UI project
• A Universal Windows App UI Project
• A Windows Phone UI Project
• A Windows Store UI Project
• A Wpf UI Project
• Tip Calculator - A recap

General articles:

• The MvvmCross Manifesto
• High Level MvvmCross Objects
• Databinding
• Value Converters
• View Model Lifecycle
• ViewModel to ViewModel navigation
• Customising App and Setup
• Service Location and Inversion of Control
• Assemblies
• Plugins
• Testing
• Dialog - very draft

iOS Articles:

• Tables and Cells in iOS
• Map Annotation Data-Binding

For more information please also see:

• the N+1 video series - N Plus 1 Videos Of MvvmCross
• Stuart's blog
• Cheesebaron's blog
• DeapSquatter's blog
• Odenaxos's blog
• Greg's blog
• Kerry's blog
• Jammer's blog
• others? Get in touch if you think your blog should be here......

Contribute!

Some of the best ways to contribute are to try things out, file bugs, and join conversations.

• Pull requests: Open/Closed
• Issues: Open/Closed

If you would like to help make MvvmCross even better, then please do:

• new code - including pull requests via GitHub - or you can fork the project and build your own extensions
• new plugins - can be hosted in your own repositories
• please do blog about your adventures with MvvmCross - we're currently light on documentation!
• if you use the framework, then please let me know - we love to see what people are doing with it

Licensing

MvvmCross is licensed under the MS-PL License

• MonoCross was the original starting point for this project, and was used as a reference under MIT
• Phone7.Fx is redistributed and modified under MS-PL
• Tiny bits of MvvmLight are redistributed and modified under MIT
• NewtonSoft.Json is redistributed and modified here under MIT
• The original work on the JSON.Net port to MonoTouch and MonoDroid was done by @ChrisNTR
• Sqlite-net - custom license
• MonoTouch.Dialog - MIT X11
• MonoDroid.Dialog - MIT X11
• Messenger ideas from JonathanPeppers/XPlatUtils under Apache License Version 2.0, and from GrumpyDev/TinyMessenger under simple license of "THIS CODE AND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY"
• Color codes under MIT License

Acknowledgements

• Thanks to McCannLondon for sponsoring the initial part of this work
• Thanks to JetBrains for a community Resharper license to use on this project
• Thanks to Infragistics for a control license for Nuclios and .Net