MvvmLight navigation in Xamarin.Forms

MvvmLight is a very popular Mvvm framework created by Laurent Bugnion. I like to use MvvmLight but when developing mobile apps I miss the possibility to create modals, so I created an extension to the navigation service in MvvmLight, read more about it here. We can also use MvvmLight when we developing apps with Xamarin.Forms […]

  3/10/2016 - 8:51 PM

MvvmLight Navigation Extension

When navigating in iOS we can choose to do a modal navigation. That means that we open a page that is on top of the other pages and not included in the navigation stack. When using MvvmLight we only have one method (NavigateTo) when we want to open a new page. While I want to […]

  11/9/2015 - 11:33 AM

MvvmLight and Xamarin.Android

Last week I wrote a blog post about Xamarin.iOS and MvvmLight. Now it’s time for the second post about MvvmLight, this time about how to use it with Xamarin.Android. Because I put the ViewModels in a separate project I can use the same ViewModels for both Android and iOS. First we install the NuGet package […]

  11/3/2015 - 10:19 AM

Use MvvmLight in Xamarin.iOS

I think MVVM is a good design pattern to separate UI and business logic. MvvmLight is one of the most popular frameworks for MVVM. In this blog post I will show how you can use MvvmLight when we’re building a iOS app with Xamarin. The fist step is to create a view model. I always […]

  10/29/2015 - 2:31 PM