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
   

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2. Hello.
   

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6. UIKit
   

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7. 2017
   1989 2001 2007
   

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8. UIKit
   

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9. Swift Objective C
   Strongly Typed Weak Typed
   Value Reference
   Composition Inheritance
   Protocol-Oriented Programming Object-Oriented Programming
   

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10. UIKit
    Model View Controller
    

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11. View Controller Model
    User Events
    

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12. View Controller Model
    User Events
    

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13. View
    Controller
    Model
    User Events
    View
    View
    View Controller Controller
    Model
    Model
    Model
    

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15. Predictability
    

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16. Unidirectional Data Flow
    

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17. View
    Actions Dispatch Store
    Actions
    Unidirectional Data Flow
    State State
    

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18. View
    Actions Dispatch Store
    Actions
    State State
    

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19. View
    Actions Dispatch Store
    Actions
    State State
    

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20. View
    Actions Dispatch Store
    Actions
    State State
    

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21. View
    Actions Dispatch Store
    Actions
    State State
    

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22. View
    Actions Dispatch Store
    Actions
    State State
    

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23. State
    State
    State
    State
    State
    State
    State
    State
    State
    

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24. View
    Actions Dispatch Store
    Actions
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25. ✓ Prefers Value Types
    ✓ Predictable
    ✓ Composition through Components
    Unidirectional Data Flow
    

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26. Choices
    

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27. Build on top of UIKit
    UIKit
    FlowKit?
    

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29. One More Thing…
    

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30. Actions Dispatch Store
    Actions
    Unidirectional Data Flow
    State State
    View
    

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31. Actions Dispatch Store
    Actions
    Unidirectional Data Flow
    State State
    

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32. Thank you.
    Hire me.
    zorn@zornlabs.com
    

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