UIKit it Dead, Long Live UIKit!

With the introduction of Swift and the rise of functional programming ideals in the community, UIKit and its MVC heritage has become a bottleneck for new ideas. This talk speculates how Apple might overcome this in the years to come and expand its tooling for designers. Attendee should walk away with a curiosity about the other UI patterns being developed and a resource list to learn more.

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1. UIKit is Dead, 
 Long Live UIKit! Mike Zornek • May 4, 2017
2. Hello.
6. UIKit
7. 2017 1989 2001 2007
8. UIKit
9. Swift Objective C Strongly Typed Weak Typed Value Reference Composition Inheritance Protocol-Oriented Programming Object-Oriented Programming
10. UIKit Model View Controller
11. View Controller Model User Events
12. View Controller Model User Events
13. View Controller Model User Events View View View Controller Controller Model Model Model
15. Predictability
16. Unidirectional Data Flow
17. View Actions Dispatch Store Actions Unidirectional Data Flow State State
18. View Actions Dispatch Store Actions State State
19. View Actions Dispatch Store Actions State State
20. View Actions Dispatch Store Actions State State
21. View Actions Dispatch Store Actions State State
22. View Actions Dispatch Store Actions State State
23. State State State State State State State State State
24. View Actions Dispatch Store Actions Unidirectional Data Flow State State
25. ✓ Prefers Value Types ✓ Predictable ✓ Composition through Components Unidirectional Data Flow
26. Choices
27. Build on top of UIKit UIKit FlowKit?
29. One More Thing…
30. Actions Dispatch Store Actions Unidirectional Data Flow State State View
31. Actions Dispatch Store Actions Unidirectional Data Flow State State
32. Thank you. Hire me. zorn@zornlabs.com