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!

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]

Contact

Donn Felker

• @donnfelker [twitter.com]
• donnfelker.com

Kaushik Gopal

• @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]
• kaush.co