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The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI

By : Pieter Nijs
Book Image

The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI

By: Pieter Nijs

Overview of this book

In today's fast-paced world of modern software development, teams need to be efficient, productive, and capable of rapidly adapting to changes to deliver high-quality products, making it crucial for developers to write maintainable and easy-to-test code. The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI helps you to thoroughly explore the Model-View-View Model (MVVM) design pattern. The chapters show you how this pattern helps in structuring code to embrace the separation of concerns, allowing for loosely coupled user interface and application logic, which ultimately empowers you to write more robust, maintainable, and testable code. The book also highlights .NET MAUI's capabilities and features, and enables you to delve into the essential components within the framework that facilitate the application of the MVVM pattern. With the help of a sample application, this definitive guide takes a hands-on approach to walk you through both the essential and advanced usages of the MVVM pattern to ensure that you successfully apply the practical aspects of the pattern to your .NET MAUI projects. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a comprehensive understanding of the MVVM design pattern and its relevance in the context of .NET MAUI, as well as developed the skills needed to successfully apply it in practice.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1: Key Concepts and Components
8
Part 2: Building a .NET MAUI App Using MVVM
13
Part 3: Mastering MVVM Development

Localization with MVVM

So, we’ve built this fantastic Recipes! app, and we’re quite pleased with its design and features. However, as it stands, the app is entirely in English. What about culinary enthusiasts from different parts of the world? The answer is localization, specifically focusing on translating all aspects of our app to make it accessible and user-friendly to a global audience.

In this chapter, we’ll tackle localization through the lens of MVVM. We’ll be looking at translating the hardcoded copy labels that are baked into the app, but also at effectively fetching language-specific data from the API. To accomplish this, we’ll delve into the following topics:

  • Working with cultures, resource files, and localization
  • Looking at a localization solution for MVVM
  • Using a custom Translate markup extension
  • Fetching localized data from APIs

As we dive into this chapter, remember that our journey through localization...