fantastic-ios-architecture

Better ways to structure apps

Content

• General
• Unidirectional Data Flow
• VIPER
• MVVM
• Data Source
• Sync
• Cache

General

Posts

• Clean Cocoa ⭐
• Flow Controllers on iOS for a Better Navigation Control
• iOS Development: You're Doing It Wrong
• How to separate view controllers from their view logic
• 8 Patterns to Help You Destroy Massive View Controller
• API Design
• Intentions
• Model-View-ViewModel for iOS
• Singletons, AppDelegates and top-level data.
• Collection Extensions
• SERVICE-ORIENTED APPDELEGATE
• Model View Controller Presenter
• Model View Whatever
• How We Modularized Medium’s iOS codebase
• Lighter View Controller Swift
• Improve your iOS Architecture with FlowControllers
• Massive View Controller
• Lighter AppDelegate
• Clean Swift iOS Architecture for Fixing Massive View Controller
• Modern application architectures (Reactive programming, MVVM and beyond)
• “Tree of Models” as an Alternative App Architecture Model ⭐
• A composable pattern for pure state machines with effects
• MVVM Is Quite Okay at What It Is Supposed to Do
• Architectures comparison

Videos

• Platformizing UI code
• The State of Statelessness
• Good iOS Application Architecture

Frameworks

• RxSwift Reactive Programming in Swift
• Operations A Swift framework inspired by WWDC 2015 Advanced NSOperations session.
• Logician Logic programming in Swift

Repos

• modular-architecture Examples of iOS Modular Architecture in Swift
• CleanStore A sample iOS app built using the Clean Swift architecture
• Delta Delta takes an app that has custom state management spread throughout all the VCs and simplifies it by providing a simple interface to change state and subscribe to its changes.
• eigen The Art World in Your Pocket or Your Trendy Tech Company's Tote, Artsy's iOS app

Unidirectional Data Flow

Posts

• Unidirectional Data Flow in Swift: An Alternative to Massive View Controllers
• Ziggurat iOS App Architecture
• ziggurat App architecture with one-way data data flow and view models
• Rethinking iOS App Architecture Using a One Way Data Flow
• Elmification of Swift
• StateView Views that automatically update themselves.
• Render Swift and UIKit a la React.
• Real World Flux Architecture on iOS ⭐
• Turning UIKit Inside Out ⭐
• App Coordinators and Redux on iOS

Videos

• Building a Unidirectional Data Flow App in Swift with Realm

Repos

• ReSwift Unidirectional Data Flow in Swift - Inspired by Redux ⭐⭐⭐
• Reactor Unidirectional data flow in Swift
• Aftermath Stateless message-driven micro-framework in Swift. ⭐⭐
• Renderer Swift and UIKit a la React.
• Few.swift Views as functions of their state.
• SwiftFlux A type-safe Flux implementation for Swift
• katana-swift Swift Apps in a Swoosh

VIPER

Posts

• Introduction to VIPER
• Architecting iOS Apps with VIPER
• Brigade’s Experience Using an MVC Alternative
• First Observations on TDD with VIPER
• Building Modular iOS Apps
• iPhreaks Show – VIPER with Conrad Stoll and Jeff Gilbert
• Clean Architecture - VIPER by Redbooth
• 250 Days Shipping With Swift and VIPER
• IOS ARCHITECTURE: REAL LIFE VIPER
• Humble Object Pattern in Swift
• iOS Architecture Patterns Demystifying MVC, MVP, MVVM and VIPER
• Should I use Viper architecture for my next iOS application, or it is still very new to use?
• VIPER to be or not to be?
• iOS Project Architecture: Using VIPER
• iOSModulesArchitecture Quick example of how divide an app into modules to respect the SOLID principles
• ARCHITECTING MOBILE APPS WITH (B)VIPER MODULES - A STRUCTURED ENGINEERING APPROACH FOR BIG MOBILE APPS
• Clean Architecture - VIPER at Redbooth by @sergigracia
• VIPER to be or not to be

MVVM

Posts

• Introduction to MVVM
• MVVM is Not Very Good
• Simplification Of IOS View Controllers: MVVM Or Presentation Controls?
• On MVVM, and Architecture Questions
• Reddit-MVVM-Benchmark MVVM with FRP Benchmark project

Data Source

Posts

• Lightweight iOS View Controllers
• Apple’s Take on App Architecture
• Fluent Pagination - no more jumpy scrolling
• AdvancedCollectionView
• iOS: UITableView controller
• Nestable
• Advanced UITableViews Made Simple: YLTableView
• Typed, yet Flexible Table View Controller
• Complex table view state changes made easy

Videos

• UMT2016 - John Sundell - Building component-driven UIs at Spotify
• Refactoring at Scale – Lessons Learned Rewriting Instagram’s Feed

Repos

• Mensa Smart, modern table and collection views on iOS.
• RLDTableViewSuite Reusable table view controller, data source and delegate for all your UITableView needs
• PagedArray A Swift data structure for easier pagination
• ReadingList An example on using the Mantle Modeling Framework with Overcoat AFNetworking extension.
• DTTableViewManager Protocol-oriented UITableView management, powered by generics and associated types.
• StatefulViewController Placeholder views based on content, loading, error or empty states
• Spots Spots is a view controller framework that makes your setup and future development blazingly fast ⭐⭐
• JSQDataSourcesKit Type-safe, value-oriented, composable data source objects that keep your view controllers light
• AutoTablel Demonstration of wrapping a UIKit API into a declarative API Layer
• HubFramework Spotify’s component-driven UI framework for iOS ⭐⭐⭐
• ComponentKit A React-inspired view framework for iOS
• IGListKit A data-driven UICollectionView framework for building fast and flexible lists. ⭐⭐⭐
• JASONETTE-iOS Native App over HTTP ⭐⭐🚀
• StatefulViewController Placeholder views based on content, loading, error or empty states

Sync

Posts

• Introducing the Realm Mobile Platform: Realtime Sync Plus Fully Open Source Databas

Repos

• wire-ios-sync-engine iOS synchronization library for Wire

Cache

Repos

• Cache Nothing but Cache
• RocketData

Videos

• Managing Consistency of Immutable Models

Licence

This project is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE.md.