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Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift

You're reading from   Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift Create fully-featured and highly functional iOS apps by writing tests first

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880735
Length 218 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chapter 3. A Test-Driven Data Model

iOS apps are often developed using a design pattern called Model-View-Controller (MVC). In this pattern, each class (or struct or enum) is either a model object, view, or a controller. Model objects are responsible for storing data. They should be independent from the kind of presentation by the UI. For example, it should be possible to use the same model object for an iOS app and a command-line tool on Mac.

View objects are the presenters of the data. They are responsible for making the objects visible (or hearable in the case of a VoiceOver-enabled app) for the user. Views are special for the device that the app is executed on. In the case of a cross-platform application, view objects cannot be shared. Each platform needs its own implementation of a view layer.

Controller objects communicate between the model and view objects. They are responsible for making the model objects presentable.

We will use MVC for our to-do app because it is one of...

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