Android Design Patterns?

PaulYoum — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:16:24 GMT

I'm trying to find a design pattern that would best work with the ESRI arcgis runtime environment. From all of the samples I've been looking at, I know they aren't full blow projects, but it's been hard to peg what kind of design patterns they are using. For my own project, I was trying to use a more MVC/MVP approach, but I'm finding it hard to decouple my model being how my model isn't a POJO, but really a wrapper around a graphics layer.

I've been contemplating separating the graphics layer out into a POJO and truly making my model a model, but I'm starting to wonder if that is even an appropriate use of time. I gain unit testability, but I add in considerable amount of bulk (listeners etc.). I realize that might be more of a generic Android problem, but I just didn't know if ESRI recommends a particular design pattern?

Re: Android Design Patterns?

EricBader — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 22:29:35 GMT

Hi Paul,

For recommended design patterns of ArcGIS Runtime Android apps, the maps-app on Github is a great place to start: Esri/maps-app-android · GitHub

There are also some great discussions about design patterns in the guide on developers.arcgis.com:

Design considerations—ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android | ArcGIS for Developers

I hope these recommendations are helpful.

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