148: Evolving Android architectures (Part 1)

In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about the state of android architectures and how they've stared to evolve. Kaushik recently worked on a project of coming up with an evolved version of an MVVM architecture, very similar to what the Android community now calls MVI. Special request: if you have follow up questions or clarifications or things you'd like to see specifically with respect to this dicussion, hit us up on the Discord #fragmented-podcast channel with your thoughts and we'll make sure to address them in future parts! Shownotes MBLT-Dev talk by KG : Unidirectional state flow patterns - a refactoring story github sample repo with this pattern Salient features of the pattern: I. Screens are driven by a single ViewModel II. Screens listen to a single Observable exposed from the ViewModel III. Screens listen to a single Observable exposed from the ViewModel IV. Events are sent into the VM through a single function processInputs V. Break(ing) the Chain VI. Testing strategy Inspiration The state of managing state with RxJava MVI patterns with Hannes Dorfmann MVRx Sponsors 🙏 Nevercode Nevercode is taking Flutter revolution extremely serious and is prepared to offer kick-ass CI/CD for Flutter projects with codemagic.io. Check it out and get started at https://codemagic.io/ Sentry.io Sentry tells you about errors in your code before your customers have a chance to encounter them. Check them out at: https://sentry.io/for/android/ Contact Discord chat or @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram) @kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)