Part 2. Building apps

Now that you’re familiar with the MVVM design pattern and how it can be used to build testable, reusable code, this part of the book expands on that knowledge. It shows how you can build cross-platform apps on iOS and Android, starting with the cross-platform code and moving on to platform-specific UI code, taking a couple of example apps from design through to fully working apps. This part moves up, layer by layer, though MVVM, before diving into the Android and iOS UIs.

Chapter 6 introduces two example apps that will be built throughout the rest of this part. It looks at how to design an app, focusing on what code goes in what layer in the MVVM design pattern. Finally, it covers creating the solutions for the example ...

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