Techniques in creating great cross platform apps.

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Demo code shows C# view models shared across iOS, Android, Windows and macOS using Xamarin and Visual Studio 2017, with live examples of dotnet standard libraries and multi-targeting producing multiple DLL outputs. Uses Caliburn.Micro patterns (view-model-first binding, view injection), a conductor lifecycle for activate/deactivate child view models, and an event-aggregator messenger to decouple menu → repo details navigation. All examples compile and run cross‑platform; source is on GitHub.

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1. 0:00Introduction to cross-platform
2. 2:36MVVM and Xamarin fundamentals
3. 8:26Code sharing in VS 2017
4. 17:33Reducing MVVM complexity
5. 32:22Conductors and decoupled design
6. 45:19Conclusion and Q&A

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