Stanford CS193p
Developing Applications for iOS
Spring 2016
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MVC
Object-Oriented Design Pattern
Continuation of Calculator Demo
Computed Properties, MVC, Laying out the UI to work with different devices
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MVC
Controller
Model View
Divide objects in your program into 3 “camps.”
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Model = What your application is (but not how it is displayed)
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Controller = How your Model is presented to the user (UI logic)
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View = Your Controller’s minions
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It’s all about managing communication between camps
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Controllers can always talk directly to their Model.
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Model View
Controllers can also talk directly to their View.
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The Model and View should never speak to each other.
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Can the View speak to its Controller?
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Sort of. Communication is “blind” and structured.
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The Controller can drop a target on itself.
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Then hand out an action to the View.
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Then hand out an action to the View.
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The View sends the action when things happen in the UI.
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Model View
Sometimes the View needs to synchronize with the Controller.
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The Controller sets itself as the View’s delegate.
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The delegate is set via a protocol (i.e. it’s “blind” to class).
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Views do not own the data they display.
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So, if needed, they have a protocol to acquire it.
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Controllers are almost always that data source (not Model!).
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Controllers interpret/format Model information for the View.
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Can the Model talk directly to the Controller?
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No. The Model is (should be) UI independent.
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So what if the Model has information to update or something?
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It uses a “radio station”-like broadcast mechanism.
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Controllers (or other Model) “tune in” to interesting stuff.
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A View might “tune in,” but probably not to a Model’s “station.”
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Now combine MVC groups to make complicated programs ...
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Now combine MVC groups to make complicated programs ...
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MVCs working together
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MVCs not working together
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Demo
Calculator continued …
“Computed” properties (instance variables which are computed rather than stored)
switch
Functions as types
Closure syntax for defining functions “on the fly”
UIStackView
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