Selecting the presentation architecture

When developing a cross-platform mobile application, it is perhaps one of the most crucial decisions to select the presentation architecture. The view and the business logic implementation should be factoring in the architectural concepts that the selected pattern entails.

Model-View-Controller (MVC) implementation

Both iOS and Android platforms are inherently designed to be used with a derivative of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. If we were dealing with a native application, it would have been the most logical path to use MVC for iOS and Model-View-Presenter (MVP) or a slightly derived version, the Model-View-Adapter (MVA), pattern, for Android:

The MVC pattern...