For new features and upgrade to newer MvvmCross, Xamarin Forms versions, and support for newer versions of Visual Studio, take a look at the following extension, or the following repo.

This is a project to build a Visual Studio 2015 extension to help you start developing with Xamarin.Forms and MvvmCross.

You can download the extension from the Visual Studio gallery.

The projects generated require a reference to the SQLite libraries, and because of issues with the latest version of Nuget, the UWP project cannot get that reference from the MvvmCross SQLite package. In order to be able to resolve this reference, you need to install the SQLite for Universal Windows Platform extension. You can download the extension from here.

After installing the extension, when creating a new project in Visual Studio, you will be able to select a new template: Xamarin Forms with MvvmCross Solution Template. This will create the following projects:

• A Portable Class Library that will contain the Xamarin.Forms UI files, the View Models and a basic abstract repository class to work with the SQLite database.
• An Android project
• An iOS project
• An Universal Windwos Platform project
• An UITest project
• An UnitTest project

Other small features that can be found in the project are:

• Localization
• (will continue to add more interesting stuff)