iOS App Development: Design Patterns for Mobile Architecture

Course details

Developers need to know how to minimize app complexity and maximize scalability. Good architectural planning—founded on established design patterns—is the key to solid code. This course provides an overview of the different architectural models and design patterns used to simplify enterprise applications. Learn how to audit an app and transition from MVC to a layered architecture, using models such as MVP, MVVM, VIPER, and MVA (minimum viable architecture). Instructor Jon Bott introduces the dependency injection pattern (for decoupling layers), the coordinator pattern (for managing application flow), and data binding with RxSwift.

Learning objectives
Moving pieces of architecture
Designing an MVA app
Walking through a demo application
Converting to MVP
Moving non-view logic to a presenter
Breaking logic into layers
Using entities
Setting up dependency injection
Implementing the coordination pattern
Adding data binding with RxSwift

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know
03 - How to use the exercise files

1. Moving Pieces of Architecture

04 - Why architecture
05 - Architecture pieces
06 - Common architectures
07 - MVA (mininimum viable architecture)
08 - Common architectures comparison

2. Demo Application Walkthrough

09 - UI overview
10 - Code overview
11 - Load data

3. Convert to MVP

12 - Create presenter
13 - Create presenter, part 2
14 - Create presenter, part 3
15 - Create presenter, part 4

4. Expand Layers

16 - Expand layers
17 - Expand layers, part 2
18 - Entities

5. Dependency Injection

19 - Swinject overview
20 - Swinject storyboard
21 - Presenter conversion
22 - Presenter conversion, part 2
23 - Protocol injection

6. Navigation Coordinators

24 - Coordinator walkthrough
25 - Wire into Swinject and app delegate
26 - Presenter to coordinator communication

7. Data Binding

27 - RxSwift observables
28 - RxCocoa data binding

Conclusion

29 - Next steps