Last week I gave a talk at iOSCon 2017 entitled The Grand Tour of iOS Architectures. #ioscon

Join Dan on this grand tour and discover the plethora of iOS software architectures popping up, from VIPER, VIP and Clean to Flux, Redux and Reactive. Along the way Dan will highlight the common themes and look at some real case studies, to get to the essence of what architecture is and why you should think about it for your app.

You can find the video on SkillsMatter (free registration required) and the slides on SpeakerDeck. The talk centred around an example app, available on GitHub, which is implemented using several different architectures.

I think the talk went well, and I somehow even managed to land exactly on 30 minutes. I got a lot of really fantastic questions that I think demonstrate the importance of this topic, and the desire for the community to step up when it comes to improving the design of our iOS code bases. I couldn’t have been happier!

I had a great time at iOSCon this year. Aside from meeting lots of great people, there were some really interesting talks. Read on for a few personal highlights.

Day 1:

I liked the inclusion of lightning talks during day 1. These were a welcome degustation amongst the chunkier talks. Aside from Paul’s TDD demonstration, I also enjoyed:

Eliasz Sawicki’s spirited introduction to Functional Reactive Programming

Kevin Muessig’s apt look at @IBDesignable and @IBInspectable as it’s something we’re using quite heavily at work. While it has some interesting benefits, it exacerbates some irritating Xcode bugs (cont-in-u-ous-l-y building projects!)

Day 2:

I really enjoyed Scotty’s plea for us to consider how to make passwords a less horrible experience for everybody

Adrian Thomas related his experience of building apps that work across iOS, macOS and tvOS

Finally, Yoichi Tagaya made a case for dependency injection and even showed how to build a simple IoC container from scratch. I appreciated him demystifying what is seen by some as unnecessary magic (myself included!), although I’m still not sold on the concept of containers for iOS

There are still several talks I need to catch up on, including:

Thanks to Skills Matter for hosting iOSCon this year. It was a great event at an excellent venue. I heard a lot of good feedback about the event from people during the breaks, and the pizza at the party was delicious. :)

I’ve already got my ticket for iOSCon 2018 next March, and if you register before 26th June 2017, you can get an amazing discount!

I will also be speaking at the accompanying iOSCon Bytes series on August 8th. It would be great to see you there.