I've made Android apps using pure Xamarin.Android, and now I'm starting a new Xamarin.Android project using MvvmCross with it. I noticed MvvmCross comes with some of its own UI components (like MvxListView) that I should be using instead of the pure Android UI component. Is there a list of these MvvmCross Android components that I can use as a reference, to make sure that I am using MvvmCross properly?
I want to start my Android app by making tabs at the bottom of the screen. Is there a "MvvmCross way" of doing this? Or should I still use the pure Android UI components that I usually use (ViewPager and TabLayout)?
Any advice for someone going to MvvmCross from pure Xamarin.Android would be appreciated as well!
The Views MvvmCross provides are simply to provide bindings. So in the case of ListView, instead of having to create your own Adapter for a ListView and assign that in your Activity or Fragment, you can bind it like so in the layout:
local:MvxBind="ItemsSource MyItems"
Where MyItems is a collection of items in your ViewModel. The underlying control is still ListView and you would be able to cast a MvxListView directly to ListView if you really wanted.