Ferro

Simple and powerful MVP library for Android

Ferro elegantly solves two age-old problems of Android Framework related to configuration changes:

• restore screen's data
• managing background tasks

First problem is solved using permanent presenter, second - using freezing rx events (Observable doesn't unsubscribe). Also new feature was added - Ferro can freeze rx event when screen becomes invisible, and defreeze it when screen goes to foreground.

The schematic work of ferro:

Ferro is divided into 3 layers, each of one adds behavior to the previous. So you can use only part of Ferro, if you want.

The first layer:

ferro-core

This library contains base classes for Activity and Fragment ( PSSActivity, PSSFragmentV4, PSS - persistent screen scope). For each activity and fragment, based on this classes, will be created PersistentScreenScope. You can get it by calling the method PSSActivity#getPersistentScreenScope or PSSFragmentV4#getPersistentScreenScope. This object isn't destroyed when configuration changed, it is only destroyed when screen is finally destroyed (e.g. after call Activity#finish()). You can add listener, which will be called when PersistentScreenScope destroyed. It has methods for storing and getting objects. In reality, PersistentScreenScope is actually a retained Fragment without view.

This mechanism is perfect for storing a presenter, that is done in the next extention:

ferro-mvp

This library contains base classes for view, presenter and screen component. For each screen you need to extend ScreenComponent, MvpPresenter and MvpActivityView or MvpFragmentV4View.

The ScreenComponent will be saved in PersistentScreenScope and reused when view recreated. In method ScreenComponent#inject(view) you need to insert presenter to the view. The easiest way to do it is to use dagger component as ScreenComponent. Due to this mechanism presenter is reused after configuration change.

Method MvpPresenter#onLoad(viewRecreated) will be called, when view is ready. Boolean parameter viewRecreated means that view is recreated after configuration change. You should show previously loaded data via this method, it data exists.

In MvpActivityView you should override method #onCreate() with parameter viewRecreated instead of default method #onCreate(). Same for MvpFragmentV4View and onActivityCreated method.

If you use Dagger, this library contains two scope annotations @PerApplication and @PerScreen. It also contains ActivityProvider and FragmentProvider, which can be used for getting access to Activity or Fragment inside objects, provided by Dagger screen component (e.g. inside Navigator class).

It's lifecycle of screen's objects:

The next extention adds freeze logic for Rx events:

ferro-mvp-rx

Class MvpRxPesenter contains freeze logic, scematic work of which shown in gif above. This class should be extended instead of MvpPresenter.

If you subscribe to Observable via one of MvpRxPesenter#subscribe() methods, all rx events (onNext, onError, onComplete) would be frozen when view destroyed and unfrozen when view recreated. If option freezeEventOnPause is enabled (it is enabled by default), all Rx events would be also frozen when screen is paused and unfrozen when screen is resumed.

When screen is finally destroyed, all subscriptions would be automatically unsubscribed.

ferro-rx

This library contains rx operators ( ObservableOperatorFreeze, MaybeOperatorFreeze, SingleOperatorFreeze, CompletableOperatorFreeze, FlowableOperatorFreeze for RxJava2 and OperatorFreeze for RxJava1), which contains freeze logic. To apply it, you should pass this operator in method Observable#lift().

Conclusion

Nobody likes to do the basic logic of the project dependent on third-party libraries. So, the Ferro is, generally speaking, set of simple ideas, and you can create you own base classes by using this ideas.

Dependency

repositories {

 jcenter()
 
}

dependencies {

 //for use the full ferro (still not support RxJava2)

 compile 'com.agna.ferro:ferro-mvp-rx:1.1.2'

 //for use the part of ferro

 compile 'com.agna.ferro:ferro-core:1.1.2'

 compile 'com.agna.ferro:ferro-mvp:1.1.2'

 compile 'com.agna.ferro:ferro-rx:1.0.2'

  //or if you use RxJava2

 compile 'com.agna.ferro:ferro-rx:2.0.0'
 
}

License

Copyright 2016 Maxim Tuev
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