Learn how to use the popular MVVM Light development framework with a focus on reliable
maintainable code that can be deployed across any of the .NET-supported mobile platforms. Clear
examples are provided of the advantages of the MVVM platform along with step-by-step
demonstrations of how to create applications at different levels of complexity. Application
development is covered for iOS Android and Windows phone (UWP) using MVVM Light as the
central framework. The model-view-view-model (MVVM) pattern is valued by many developers as an
excellent way to create sophisticated modern applications. Its clear separation of presentation
and business logic produces a clean implementation that promotes speed scalability and code
reuse in applications with a complex UI. These characteristics have long been highly valued by
WPF developers and now that benefit is available to Xamarin developers too. What You'll Learn
Set up and install MVVM Light Understand the advantages and disadvantages of MVVM Discover why
inversion of control is important in MVVM Conduct unit testing of MVVM apps Convert your
existing apps to use MVVM Use MVVM Light within a Xamarin Forms app Use webservices Be
introduced to the new .NET 2.0 Standard Class Library and how to use MVVM Light with it
