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iOS Architecture: MVVM-C, Scenes (2/6)

Scene

A scene can be thought of a section, feature, or use-case inside an app. A small but internally complete and contained part of the whole application. How big or small you want to make the scene is up to you.

iOS Architecture: MVVM-C, Coordinators (3/6)

What is a Coordinator?

This is the last part of this architecture’s name but I think it’s the most important part. If you can only implement one part of this architecture as a whole I would recommend the you…

iOS Architecture: MVVM-C, ViewModel’s (4/6)

What is a ViewModel?

Let’s have a thought experiment. Take a typical view controller and split it into two parts. On one side leave all of the UIKit/UIViewController specific methods and everything that deals…

iOS Architecture: MVVM-C, ViewData’s (5/6)

Why ViewData?

This is a little bit of a controversial concept, and you won’t usually hear it mentioned when talking about iOS architectures, not by this name at least.

iOS Architecture: MVVM-C, Introduction (1/6)

Introduction

This will be the first article in a series of six articles detailing my specific implementation or flavor of the MVVM-C iOS app architecture pattern.

iOS Architecture: MVVM-C, Services (6/6)

Service Layer

The service layer is a design pattern that has been around for decades. It is based on the concept that a system should be separated into different layers, like an onion, with different responsibilities on each…

Introduction to iOS App Architectures

Architecture

What is architecture? What does the word actually mean? If you look in the dictionary you have two main definitions.

The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.

Introducing Whales

Dockerizing your applications was never this easy