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ios-facade-example

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This is a facade example with an iOS application using AFNetworking, TMCache, MagicalRecord and Mantle.

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Façade design pattern implementation on iOS
===========================================

__Description:__

On this example, I'm using this pattern to abstract object persistence operations through a single interface (thanks to Mantle) using the following strategies: memory cache (with TMCache), database (with MagicalRecord) and network cache (with AFNetworking). This is great for performance and user experience on mobile applications.

__Building:__

In order to build the application, clone this repo:

```sh
$ git clone git@github.com:Ruenzuo/ios-facade-example.git
```

Then set up the dependencies and open the workspace and you're ready to go:

```sh
$ cd ios-facade-example && pod install && open WeatherApp.xcworkspace
```

![ios-facade-screenshot-1.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ruenzuo/res/master/ios-facade-screenshot-1.png)&nbsp;
![ios-facade-screenshot-2.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ruenzuo/res/master/ios-facade-screenshot-2.png)
![ios-facade-screenshot-3.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ruenzuo/res/master/ios-facade-screenshot-3.png)&nbsp;
![ios-facade-screenshot-4.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ruenzuo/res/master/ios-facade-screenshot-4.png)

__Design notes:__

* I used to keep Core Data relationships on MTLModel (check [v1.0](https://github.com/Ruenzuo/ios-facade-example/commit/b99d7f31a6afc4b4a37c992b51692270c5056f69)) but I ended up changing this later (check [v1.1](https://github.com/Ruenzuo/ios-facade-example/commit/ddcb34612bdbeca24df46da313721a543a3973b9)) which decreased memory usage from ~40MB to ~20MB and startup time from ~3s to ~0s.
* Current data model:

![ios-facade-screenshot-5.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ruenzuo/res/master/ios-facade-screenshot-5.png)

* Probably this can be done without Mantel layer, I just think it makes things easier that handling NSManagedObject instances. 
* There are a lot of performance and test hooks and methods that you don't need to have on production.
* This has been tested on very large data sources (check [v1.2](https://github.com/Ruenzuo/ios-facade-example/commit/88d6ee3c3c73408ed8c4c0c6c30df131553129f7), it has 250 countries, 100 cities for each country and 10 stations for each city) and short data sources (check [v1.3](https://github.com/Ruenzuo/ios-facade-example/commit/cbf228a5ba43e0e81f848bd3d261f818e85f50b4) it has 250 countries, 3 cities for each country and 10 stations for each city).
* Currently I'm not using any synchronization pattern, just checking if the data exists on database to make new requests.

__To-Do:__

* `[✓]` <del>Make it public.</del>
* `[✓]` <del>Write the blog post</del>. It's [here](http://ruenzuo.github.io/facade-software-design-pattern-on-ios-and-android/index.html).
* `[ ]` Add tests.
* `[ ]` Decide which strategy use depending on system resources like available memory, network state and others. 
* `[ ]` Add synchronization pattern.

License
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