title: Native ActionBar-based tabs with native fragments (with MvvmCross)
body: <p>I am porting an Xamarin-based Android app to be PCL'ified and MvvmCross'ified so we can target multiple mobile device platforms.</p>
  
  <p>Since this is a line-of-business app where we can dictate the minimum Android OS version, we wish to <em>avoid</em> using the various v4 / v7 etc "Support libraries". We prefer to use all native components that are already part of the OS. So this basically means we only wish to target Jellybean and probably Android v4.2 upwards.</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately whilst there are lots of examples out there of using MvvmCross with <code>ActionBarSherlock</code> and the <code>SupportActionBar</code> (in a support library), there appears to be no examples of how to wire up MvvmCross with the native <code>ActionBar</code> using native <code>Fragment</code>s as tabs.</p>
  
  <p>I'm not expecting someone to post up swathes of code but would really appreciate if someone could give me a few pointers on the best approach to take to achieve this.</p>
  
  <p>I will certainly blog about it once I have a working solution to benefit the whole MvvmCross/Xamarin community.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>