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.

See the official MvvmCross blog for the latest news!

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