Android Clean Architecture (Lightning Talk)

Lately there has been a lot of talk about clean architecture in the Android space including MVC, MVP, MVVM, and more. Let's break down some of these design patterns and talk about how one might implement them on Android.

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1. Android Clean Architecture
   Chuck Greb
   @ecgreb
   30 Sept 2015
   Android Alliance Philly
   GDG Philadelphia
   

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2. Why clean architecture?
   ● All powerful Activities and Fragments
   ● Separate business logic from Android framework
   ● Improved testability
   

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3. MVC
   Model View Controller
   

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5. MVC
   Supervising Controller
   ● The View relays user input to the Controller
   ● The Controller processes input and updates the Model
   ● Changes in Model state are used to update the View
   

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6. MVP
   Model View Presenter
   

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8. MVP
   Passive View
   ● View forwards user inputs and lifecycle events to the Presenter
   ● Presenter interacts with Model to format data for display
   

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9. MVVM
   Model View ViewModel
   

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11. MVVM
    Presentation Model
    ● ViewModel contains data field for every component in the View
    ● Data binding and synchronization
    

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12. MVPC
    Model View Presenter Controller
    

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14. MVPC
    WTF
    ● Modified version of MVP to accommodate Android framework
    ● Cleanly separates business logic from UI and Activity lifecycle
    ● Enables unit testing of non-Android components
    ○ Presenter
    ○ Model
    

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16. References
    Development of Further Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
    (DFPEAA)
    Martin Fowler
    Fragmented (Episode #11) - The Fowler Road to a Clean Architecture
    Donn Felker & Kaushik Gopal
    Android Architecture - A simple guide for MVC, MVP and MVVM on Android
    projects
    Thanos Karpouzis
    

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17. Thanks!
    Chuck Greb
    @ecgreb
    30 Sept 2015
    Android Alliance Philly
    GDG Philadelphia
    

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