011: The Fowler Road to a Clean Architecture

In this episode – Donn and Kaushik dive into a topic that is very near and dear their hearts – application architecture. They talk about how Martin Fowler has inspired a lot of their architectural decisions and how they’re moving towards defining what a clean architecture means to them and other developers. They talk about Model View Presenter, Model View Controller and many other topics that surround these two common patterns. Take a listen and go for the ride on architecture train … all aboard!

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Show Notes

Chit-chat:

Exponential backoff with RxJava [github.com]
RxJs – ReactiveExtensions for Javascript [github.com]

Follow up:

Moving GC only applicable when app goes into background:
- A closer look at ART in Android L (see last paragraph) [anandtech.com]
- Google I/O 2014: The ART Runtime [youtube.com]

The road to a clean architecture:

Bad practices:
- Cargo cult programming [wikipedia.org]
- God objects [wikipedia.org]
Martin Fowler’s articles on Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture:
- Supervising Controller [martinfowler.com]
- Presentation Model [martinfowler.com]
- Passive View [martinfowler.com]
- Martin Fowler’s Book P of EAA [amazon.com]
Decoupling the presenter [mattlogan.me]

Other approaches to clean architectures:

MVVM on Android – what you need to know [willowtreeapps.com]
Model View ViewModel for iOS [teehanlax.com]
VIPER architecture on iOS [objc.io]
VIPER inspired Clean Android architecture [speakerdeck]
Architecting Android the clean way [fernandocejas.com]
MVP Android [antonioleiva.com]

Awesome picks:

Donn:

Learning RxJava for Android by example – Kaushik’s talk [youtube.com]
Loading data from multiple source [danlew.net]
StorIO [engineering.pushtoreresh.com]
Mocks aren’t Stubs [martinfowler.com]

Kaushik:

Rebound animation library [facebook.github.io]
- Will Bailey (creator of Rebound):
  - OrigamiActivity.java [gist.github.com]
  - Under the hood [code.facebook.com]
  - Example 1 [youtube.com]
  - Example 2 [youtube.com]
  - Example 3 [youtube.com]
  - Example 4 [youtube.com]
- Springy animations with Rebound [parallelcross.com]