Mvvmcross: Cleanup the samples

[martijn00]

We've got some great samples in https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross-Samples and https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross-Samples/tree/master/OldSamples

Most of them are not up-to-date, so we want to work on fixing them! The common tasks that need to be done:

• Remove WindowsPhone 7 and 8.x
• Remove usage of local dll's, just use nugets
• Update namespaces
• Update LinkerPleaseInclude.cs
• Use the new NavigationService
• General code cleanup
• Make code improvements
• Make sure the samples compile and run on emulator

Here is a list with projects:

• [x] StarWarsSample
• [ ] XPlatformMenus
• [ ] ApiExamples
• [ ] AutoViewExamples
• [ ] Babel
• [ ] DailyDilbert
• [ ] FractalGen
• [ ] InternetMinute (@senorincognito)
• [ ] PictureTaking (@c-lamont)
• [ ] TipCalc (@gdblack)
• [ ] ValueConversion
• [x] WorkingWithCollections (@b099l3 & @tomcurran)
• [ ] BestSellers
• [ ] CirriousConference
• [ ] CompositeControl
• [ ] CrossLight
• [ ] CustomBinding
• [ ] CustomerManagement
• [ ] DialogExamples
• [ ] FirstDemo
• [ ] FirstDemo.Core
• [ ] FirstDemo.Mac
• [ ] Fragments (@daniel-varela)
• [ ] GoodVibrations
• [ ] MonoTouchCellTutorial
• [ ] MoreControls
• [ ] MvxPageDemo
• [ ] MvxPageDemo.Shared
• [ ] MvxPageDemo.Touch
• [ ] Navigation
• [ ] QuickLayout
• [ ] Soba
• [ ] Soba.Core
• [ ] Soba.XamMac.Unified
• [ ] Tutorial
• [ ] TwitterSearch

Some of those need to be consolidated in 1 folder.

[nmilcoff]

It would be also nice to have a macOS / UWP version of StarWarsSample. Planned layouts can be found here

[kiliman]

I'm interested in updating the sample apps for the Summer Hackfest.

[VenkatsQuest]

I'm interested in updating the sample apps for the Summer Hackfest @martijn00.

• Kindly let me know the procedure for the same
  On another note , this link is not working

[VenkatsQuest]

Hello @martijn00
Inside soba folder itself we've Soba.Core and Soba.XamMac.Unified , I've already cleaned this solution and submitted a pull request for this.
Do we still want to maintain Soba.Core and Soba.XamMac.Unified outside as well ? if not needed , can you just delete those projects ?

Thanks much.

[mellson]

I am up for updating some samples during the Summer Hackfest. I'd prefer to do mac samples.

[Cheesebaron]

@VenkatsQuest if they are duplicated, just delete them. Also if you could remove the Unified suffix that would be great.

Hey @mellson you are very welcome to grab some of the samples and bring them up to speed and improve etc.

I think the easiest way to coordinate here, is when someone starts working on one of the samples, they write a comment in here which one they are working on. Ping @MvvmCross/core if you have any issues or questions or join us on Slack

[VenkatsQuest]

@Cheesebaron I've already deleted as per my discussions with @martijn00
I really didn't get your comment related to Unified suffix , can you please be more elaborate on the same ? Thanks much.

[Cheesebaron]

.Unified just remove that. We don't live in a world with Unified and Non-Unified MacOS/iOS projects anymore.

[VenkatsQuest]

Done for Soba project , will do it for the upcoming projects if any @Cheesebaron

[Vertygo]

I would like to contribute to this project for the Summer Hackfest. I would like to take some of windows samples.

[b099l3]

I would like to update the WorkingWithCollections, started working on it with the MvxExpandableTableViewSource and do the documentation on this too.

[Cheesebaron]

@Vertygo that would be most excellent, if you already know which projects you want to contribute to please list them. If you don't know and you want us to find some you can work on we can also arrange that.

@b099l3 I've written your name on the WorkingWithCollections project in the opening post. If you have any questions or run into any issues, don't hesitate to contact us.

[ehuna]

Do we have clean Xamarin Forms samples? I've looked and contributed to https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross/tree/develop/TestProjects/Forms - but I'm not sure if these are samples or tests projects.

In either case, I would like to contribute to Xamarin Forms samples for the Hackfest - either cleaning up TestProjects/Forms or creating new sample projects for iOS, Android, UWP, and Mac.

As time permits, I'd like to also work on the documentation for these samples - the goal to make it really easy for someone new to MvvmCross to compile and run the Xamarin Form samples.

[gdblack]

I'm also interested in helping clean up the samples during the summer hack_fest!
I would like to work on the TipCalc sample.

[Prandtl]

Working on ValueConversion sample

[kiliman]

Are there any guidelines for the samples?

What should be the Minimum Target Framework for Android and iOS? One of the samples has iOS 6 as Target and the simulator complained that the app would not be supported. I bumped it to 9 and that seems to have satisfied iOS. For Android, should we continue to use API 15 (Ice Cream Sandwich)?

I upgraded the iOS sample, and it updated first to .NETStandard1.6.1, then it prompted to update to .NETStandard2.0.

Can we move all samples to .NETStandard2.0? And if so, does that mean everyone needs to be on latest Visual Studio 15.3?

[Cheesebaron]

What you have proposed seems fairly reasonable @kiliman

• Android Projects Min target API 15
• .NET Standard 2.0 for the core projects (see https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross/pull/2158 for details on how to add PCL to .NET Standard projects)
• All MvvmCross references come from NuGet

[b099l3]

Working on WorkingWithCollections

[daniel-varela]

I'm working on the Fragments Sample.

[senorincognito]

I would like to start with a smaller sample to get a feel for the structure. The InternetMinute sample looks easy enough for that.

[c-lamont]

I'll take a look at PictureTaking.

[b099l3]

Im going to start ApiExamples

[Qonstrukt]

I'll do AutoViewExamples

[tomcurran]

I'm going to do ValueConversion. I don't have access to a windows environment so won't be able to updated the WindowsStore project.

[martijn00]

@tomcurran WindowsStore and Windows 8.x can sort of be removed because we don't support it anymore.

[Qonstrukt]

I've removed the AutoView example, moving to Babel now.