A Chimp is born.... Mvvm on MonoDroid without MvvmCross

One of the goals of MvvmCross v3, Hot Tuna, is to allow other Mvvm and non-Mvvm libraries to take advantage of MvvmCross Plugins and MvvmCross Data-Binding without the developers having to buy into the entire MvvmCross experience.

For reasons I can't quite remember, this part of the project got the codename Chimp.

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The good news is that today a Chimp is born!

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The source of a first demo is in: https://github.com/slodge/CrossLight/

This demo just has:

• a simple INotifyPropertyChanged ViewModel
• a simple Activity with an MvxBindingContext added
• some simple AXML with some Swiss MvxBind statements inside

Importantly, this demo has references to only:

• the very smallest core parts of MvvmCross - the CoreCross library
• the MvvmCross.Binding libraries

On top of these references, I've added just a small amount of Setup infrastructure for starting IoC, Trace, etc, and this then allows the binding code to work for our simple View and ViewModel

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To get to this stage has required turning MvvmCross completely upside-down in terms of dependencies... but I'm excited that we've now reached this result.

I'll try to add another demo or two in the next couple of days - but really... this is now an invitation to others - does anyone want to see if the Chimp will walk with their favorite Mvvm platform?