This project provides a cross-platform mvvm mobile development framework built on top of:

• Silverlight for WP7, WP8
• Mono for Android (or Xamarin.Android)
• MonoTouch for iOS (or Xamarin.iOS)
• the WinRT XAML framework for Windows 8 Store apps.
• Windows Universal projects (WPA8.1 and Windows 8.1 Store apps)
• WPF
• Mono for Mac (or Xamarin.Mac)

This project makes extensive use of Portable Class Libraries to provide maintainable cross platform C# native applications.

Additional support available for:

• MvvmCross for Xamarin.Forms
• MvvmCross for Android Support library
• MvvmCross with SQLite

A really quick way to get started is to use the Visual Studio 2012 MvvmCross Ninja Coder Extension - download it from Visual Studio Gallery

I have started a tutorial series entitled N+1 Days of MvvmCross starting with the basics of your first MvvmCross application and covering lists, commands, binding, and more with samples for each device. The code for N+1 Days of MvvmCross is available on GitHub

For more documents and articles, see the Wiki

For more samples, see the MvvmCross Tutorials Repository

Binaries:

• nuget
• Github: MvvmCross-Binaries

Samples and Videos:

• N Plus 1 Videos Of MvvmCross
• MvvmCross Tutorials
• Evolve 2013 talk - http://xamarin.com/evolve/2013#session-dnoeeoarfj
• NDC 2013 talk - http://slodge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/ndc2013-mobile-mvvm-and-xamarin-talks.html
• Xaminar - 2012 - http://slodge.blogspot.com/2012/12/mvvmcross-video-presentation-xaminar.html
• MvvmCross and Azure - 2012 - http://slodge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/azure-to-wpmonodroidmonotouch-video-of.html

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:

• an introduction article on CodeProject - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cross-platform/566191.aspx
• the N+1 video series under production - N Plus 1 Videos Of MvvmCross
• blogs
  • Stuart's blog
  • Cheesebaron's blog
  • DeapSquatter's blog
  • Odenaxos's blog
  • Greg's blog
  • others? Get in touch if you think your blog should be here......

Questions and support:

• on StackOverflow
• on Xamarin forums

Contact - but no open-source technical questions via these channels please:

• on Twitter - @MvvmCross
• by chat - Jabbr/mvvmcross
• by email - mvvmcross email

If you would like to help with the project - including the documentation - then please get in touch :)

This project was born from:

• a fork once long ago of the MonoCross project, moving away from MVC and towards MVVM
• an extension project from www.cirrious.com
• some ideas from MvvmLight
• some ideas from ASP.NET MVC
• some ideas from OpenNetCF (Phone7.Fx)
• lots of my own ideas - www.cirrious.com and my blog

Here is the framework in action for the sqlbits conference app:

Public projects that have used this framework include:

• Kinect Star Wars - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXPE2iTvlWg
• Aviva Drive - http://www.aviva.co.uk/drive
• Origo Foci-Eb 2012 - http://slodge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/origo-foci-eb-2012-example-mvvmcross.html
• Various Conference apps - SQLBitsX, DDDSW, LondonAzure, .... e.g. https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross/tree/vnext/Sample%20-%20CirriousConference
• The CrossBox DropBox client - https://github.com/runegri/CrossBox
• The Blooor shopping list app - https://github.com/Zoldeper/Blooor
• 1,500+ apps and counting with the XPlatformCloudKit framework - https://github.com/winappkits/XPlatformCloudKit/
• Have you used the app? Please send me your links and I'll add them here
• many more!

This is the third version of the MvvmCross platform - v3.

For more info on what this version specifically aims to provide, see:

• MvvmCross v3 blog post

If you are looking for the "older" version of MvvmCross, then it's still available and still receiving updates on the master branch at

• https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross/tree/master
• https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross/tree/vNext

If you have questions, then please ask them on StackOverflow with tag MvvmCross

Alternatively, people on Xamarin Forums can be very helpful

There is a Jabbr room - on #mvvmcross - but please ask questions on StackOverflow if you can - this helps make the questions and the answers better!

If I haven't seen your question and no-one else has helped, then you can also contact me - me at slodge dot com - but please be patient with me if I'm busy with work.

If you need professional support, then please do contact me - I work freelance and can assist. Please do consider hiring me - everyone likes 'free', but I'm worth paying for :)

If you find bugs or have feature requests, then please report them through GitHub - https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross/issues

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 very light on documentation!
• if you use the framework, then please let me know - we love to see what people are doing with it.

This project is developed and distributed under Ms-Pl - see http://opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html

• MonoCross was the original starting point for this project, and was used as a reference under MIT - please see http://code.google.com/p/monocross/ for original details.
• Phone7.Fx is redistributed and modified here under Ms-PL - please see http://phone7.codeplex.com for original details.
• Tiny bits of MvvmLight are redistributed and modified here under MIT - please see http://mvvmlight.codeplex.com/ for original details.
• NewtonSoft.Json is redistributed and modified here under MIT - please see http://json.codeplex.com for original details.
• The original work on the JSON.Net port to MonoTouch and MonoDroid was done by @ChrisNTR - https://github.com/chrisntr/Newtonsoft.Json
• Sqlite-net - custom license - see https://github.com/praeclarum/sqlite-net/blob/master/license.md
• MonoTouch.Dialog - MIT X11 from https://github.com/migueldeicaza/MonoTouch.Dialog
• MonoDroid.Dialog - MIT X11 from https://github.com/kevinmcmahon/MonoDroid.Dialog
• OpenNetCF IoC (used from within Phone7.Fx?) - no longer used within the code
• 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 adapted from https://github.com/mono/sysdrawing-coregraphics under MIT License

Thanks to McCannLondon for sponsoring the initial part of this work - http://blogs.mccannlondon.co.uk/

Thanks to lots of people for their input over time - will add to this list...

Thanks to JetBrains for a community Resharper license to use on this project - http://jetbrains.com

Thanks to Infragistics for a control license for Nuclios and .Net.

If you want to support this project, please do get in touch!