iOS App with VIPER Architecture

VIPER is an acronym for View, Interactor, Presenter, Entity and Router. It’s basically an approach that implements the Single Responsibility Principle to create a cleaner, more modular and testable structure for the iOS project. The idea behind this pattern is to isolate your app’s dependencies and balancing the delegation of responsibilities among the different layers.

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1. iOS App with VIPER Architecture Suhit Patil
2. –objc.io “Good architecture is not what makes a product successful, but it does make a product maintainable and helps preserve the sanity of the people maintaining it!”
3. Traits of good Architecture? •Consistent •Isolate Dependencies •Scalable •Testsable •Maintainable
4. Model-View-Controller
5. Massive View Controller •Networking •Business Logic •UI Configuration •Notifications •Observers •DataSource and Delegates etc.
7. Clean Architecture Ref: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-architecture.html
8. VIPER Architecture Viper Architecture
9. View •UI layer which displays information forwarded by Presenter •Pass user actions / events to Presenter •UIViewController subclass with UI Elements like UITableView/ UICollectionView etc.
10. Interactor •Implements business logic as specified by the application UseCase •Interacts with outer services like Networking, Database •Networking and Database are services which gets injected as Dependancies •Pass the data in the form of Entities to Presenter
11. Entity •Model object which contains Data
12. Presenter •Handles the presentation logic for the View •Prepares the ViewModel required in the format required by the view •Invokes methods on the Interactor •Passes events to router for navigation •Independent of UIKit
13. Router •Responsible for navigation between Viper Modules
14. Demo
15. Cons •Highly increases the number of classes/protocols in the projects and complexity to create new modules. •Not much good examples and recommendations available online •Steep learning curve
16. Questions
17. Thanks