Many design patterns guide iOS architecture. People have varying opinions on what constitutes good app architecture in iOS.
I, for one, have issues with all the modern iOS architecture “best practices.”
Their main problem is that they only focus on massive view controllers. While this is a problem that we need to address, it’s far from being the only one.
After years of working in many teams with diverse backgrounds, I created the Lotus MVC Pattern to address these issues.
I have taught this new pattern to my students and email subscribers for some time now. I presented it publicly for the first time at MobileFest in Kiev, and this is the first time I show it publicly in a detailed article.
This article revolves around UIKit apps, but most of the ideas still apply to SwiftUI, since the Model-View-Controller pattern remains essential.
Matteo has been developing apps for iOS since 2008. He has been teaching iOS development best practices to hundreds of students since 2015 and he is the developer of Vulcan, a macOS app to generate SwiftUI code. Before that he was a freelance iOS developer for small and big clients, including TomTom, Squla, Siilo, and Layar. Matteo got a master’s degree in computer science and computational logic at the University of Turin. In his spare time he dances and teaches tango.
