iOS Development: Architecture

Introduction

• The value in architecting your apps
• What you should know

• A brief introduction to UML
• The use case diagram
• The class diagram
• The sequence diagram

• The app launch sequence
• Walking through the launch sequence
• App state preservation
• App state restoration
• The main run loop
• Subclassing UI application

• Introduction to fundamental architectural design patterns
• The model-view-controller
• The model-view-presenter
• MVP example
• Refactoring to MVP: Model
• Refactoring to MVP: Presenter
• Refactoring to MVP: View controller
• The Model-View-ViewModel pattern
• Implementing one-way binding, part 1
• Implementing one-way binding, part 2

• The app delegate
• App state changes
• Demo: Define the states
• Demo: Instrument delegate calls

• The main UI thread
• Concurrency
• Moving work off the main thread
• Custom concurrent queues
• Deadlocks

• Introduction to the SOLID principles
• Single responsibility
• The open/closed principle
• Liskov substitution
• Interface segregation
• Dependency inversion

• URL scheme-based communication
• Calling an app from another app
• URL scheme whitelist
• Passing parameters between apps
• Display the message, part 1
• Display the message, part 2
• AirDrop

• Respond to memory warnings via delegates
• Dispatch source memory pressure
• Optimizing for performance
• Analyze your app using Instruments

• Next steps