In my previous blog post we discussed how the Coordinator pattern can be applied on Android. This time I would like to show how this can be used in Model-View-Intent. If you don’t know yet what the Coordinator pattern is...
Over the last years we have established best practices for writing android apps: clean architecture, architectural patterns like MVP, MVVM, MVI, Repository pattern and so on. But what about in-app navigation? In this blog post I would like to talk...
In my previous blog post we discussed the importance of proper state management and why I think introducing a SingleLiveEvent as discussed in Google’s Architecture Components GitHub repo is not a good idea because it just hides the real underlying...
At I/O 2017 Google surprised us with a new initiative: Architecture Components. I really appreciate this initiative. In this blog post I would like to share my thoughts about ViewModel and some pitfalls you might stumble upon when using ViewModel...
In the previous blog posts we have discussed Model-View-Intent (MVI) and the importance of unidirectional data flow. That simplifies state restoration a lot. How and why? We will discuss that in this blog post. There are two scenarios we will...
In the previous blog posts we have discussed the Model-View-Intent (MVI) pattern and it’s characteristics. In part 1 we have talked about the importance of an unidirectional data flow and application state that is driven by the “business logic”. In...
In this blog post we will discuss how to build independent UI components and clarify why Parent-Child relations are a code smell in my opinion. Furthermore, we will discuss why I think such relations are needless. One question that arises...