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Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone devs – Using the MVVM pattern

We’ve already talked many times about the MVVM pattern on this blog and how to implement it in Windows Phone 8 apps using Caliburn Micro or in Universal Windows apps with Caliburn Micro and Prism. The Model-View-ViewModel pattern is very … Continue reading

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Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone devs – Navigation and application lifecycle

One of the core concepts when you create a mobile application is navigation: it’s unlikely that an app is made by just one page, so you need to provide a way to the user to move from one page to … Continue reading

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Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone devs – The first project

In the previous post, we’ve seen a brief introduction to Xamarin and Xamarin Forms. In this post we’ll start to play for real with a Xamarin Forms project. Creating the project After you’ve installed the Xamarin Tools, you’ll find a … Continue reading

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Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone devs – A brief introduction

Mobile cross platform development is one of the hottest topics nowadays. The market offers to consumers three major mobile platforms (iOS, Android and Windows Phone), each of them based on its own technologies, patterns and tools. iOS is based on … Continue reading

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Prism and Universal Windows apps – Layout management

In the previous posts we’ve seen that one of the requirements to setup the Prism infrastructure is to change the Views in our application so that, instead of inheriting from the Page class, we inherit from the VisualStateAwarePage one. One … Continue reading

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