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Mastering Xamarin.Forms

You're reading from   Mastering Xamarin.Forms Build rich, maintainable, multi-platform, native mobile apps with Xamarin.Forms

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Published in Mar 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788290265
Length 192 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ed Snider Ed Snider
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Understanding the MVVM pattern

At its core, MVVM is a presentation pattern designed to control the separation between user interfaces and the rest of an application. The key elements of the MVVM pattern are as follows:

  • Models: Models represent the business entities of an application. When responses come back from an API, they are typically deserialized to models.
  • Views: Views represent the actual pages or screens of an application, along with all of the elements that make them up, including custom controls. Views are very platform-specific and depend heavily on platform APIs to render the application's user interface (UI).
  • ViewModels: ViewModels control and manipulate the Views by serving as their data context. ViewModels are made up of a series of properties represented by Models. These properties are part of what is bound to the Views to provide the data that is displayed...
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