Android MVP is a base library to work with Model-View-Presenter pattern. Works on Android 4.1 (API level 16) and upwards.
A lot of Android applications use only the Model-View architecture. Using this approach, we can quickly develop new features. We use Activity or Fragment as an object that implements logic, handles UI, and controls the flow between data objects and UI. One typical scenario for creating a new screen entails creating a new Activity class, adding a bunch of views, some AsyncTasks for background operations, tracking the state of Activity… before realizing that we’ve ended up with complex code where everything is connected to everything.
The Model-View-Presenter (MVP) architecture comprises:
The presenter is responsible to act as the middle man between view and model. It retrieves data from the model and returns it formatted to the view. But unlike the typical MVC, it also decides what happens when you interact with the view.
The view, usually implemented by an Activity (it may be a Fragment, a View… depending on how the app is structured), will contain a reference to the presenter. The only thing that the view will do is calling a method from the presenter every time there is an interface action (a button click for example).
In an application with a good layered architecture, this model would only be the gateway to the domain layer or business logic. If we were using the Uncle Bob clean architecture , the model would probably be an interactor that implements a use case.
Everything is easier to understand when you have examples. So here’s one on how to develop apps using the AndroidMVP.
https://github.com/raxden/AndroidMVP/tree/master/sample
The presenter lifecycle is described below.
1. Create your view contract
Every View interface extends an empty interface, in this case IView (no methods declared). ILoginFragmentView should be able to show progress bar as the user are fetched, display the user data, or an error message when fetching fails.
public interface ILoginFragmentView extends IView {
void showLoading(String loadingMessage);
void hideLoading();
void showError(String title, String message);
void userLogged();
}2. Create your presenter contract.
ILoginFragmentPresnter
public interface ILoginFragmentPresenter {
void login(String email, String password);
}3. Create your presenter implementation, it must extends from Presenter to extend the AndroidMVP advantages and implements your contract presenter.
public class LoginFragmentPresenter extends Presenter<ILoginFragmentView> implements ILoginFragmentPresenter {
public YourFragmentPresenter(Context context) {
super(context);
}
@Override
public void login(String email, String password) {
if (validateCredentials(email, password)) {
retrieveUserData(email, password);
}
}
private void retrieveUserData(final String email, final String password) {
mView.showLoading("loading...");
{ // this code simulate asynctask usecase...
Handler handler = new Handler();
handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
if (mView != null) {
mView.userLogged();
mView.hideLoading();
}
}
}, 2000);
}
}
}4. Create your view implementation, it must extends from MVPFragment and implements your contract view.
public class LoginFragment extends MVPFragment<LoginFragmentPresenter> implements ILoginFragmentView {
@Override
public YourFragmentPresenter initializePresenter(Context context) {
return new YourFragmentPresenter(context);
}
@Override
public void userLogged() {
// user logged!
}
@Override
public void showLoading(String loadingMessage) {
// show loading progress
}
@Override
public void hideLoading() {
// hide loading progress
}
@Override
public void showError(String title, String message) {
// show error message
}
}Why use a Fragment as a view and not an Activity? If we use a fragment like view, we can separate the view of the controller. In this way the activity will only contain the logic of the controller and the fragment the logic of the view. Then you will see that code is much easier to understand, scalable, and that its degree of complexity does not rise in step with the expansion of the application itself.
1. Gradle dependency
- Add the following to your
build.gradle:
repositories {
maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
}
dependencies {
compile 'com.github.raxden:AndroidMVP:3.0.15@aar'
}2. Maven
- Add the following to your
pom.xml:
<repository>
<id>jitpack.io</id>
<url>https://jitpack.io</url>
</repository>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.raxden</groupId>
<artifactId>AndroidMVP</artifactId>
<version>3.0.15</version>
</dependency>3. clone whole repository
- Open your commandline-input and navigate to your desired destination folder (where you want to put the library)
- Use the command
git clone https://github.com/raxden/AndroidMVP.gitto download the full AndroidMVP repository to your computer (this includes the folder of the library project as well as the example project)
For a detailed documentation, please have a look at the Wiki or the Javadocs.
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