Flux framework for Kotlin/android

   implementation 'com.rockspin.rxflux:rxflux-android:0.0.3'
   implementation 'com.rockspin.rxflux:rxflux-core:0.0.3'

An opinionated, restrictive framework For Building iOS and Android Apps.

• Implements Flux on Andorid and iOS with small modifications.

• Pure Kotlin/Swift framework.

• Uses RxJava/RXSwift to model asynchronous code.

• Use the Strictly types natures of Kotlin/Swift to save us from ourselves.

We created RxFlux when building our flagship product Curated, as a way to speed up development on two platform.

• Having a common framework and approach across both platforms made building new features simple.
• Business logic in Kotlin could be quickly translated line by line to similar code in Swift.
• Adding feature and API calls had a set pattern and type safety that made code reviews simple.
• Because of the decoupled nature and unidirectional dataflow of flux tests we simple to write.
• When onboarding new staff we could just point them to the flux documentation to get started.

In short it made our lives easier and I was less likely to murder and/or lose a finger to my Co-founder.

RxFlux consists of two main libraries RxFlux-Android and RxFlux-Swift. Both operate in the same way with the same class names and functionality. We will be covering the Kotlin/Android version below. Familiarity with flux will be useful in understanding this project its documentation can be accessed here.

In RxFlux all data moves in one direction.

• Views generate events.

• Events are mapped to one or more results.

• Results are dispatched to stores via the dispatcher.

• The state is modifed by each emitted result

• The view is redrawn based on the current state.

Dataflow

We modify this approach slightly adding Effects in to the mix. Effects are one off events that should be handled by views, we will demonstrate a worked example of effects later, but mostly that are used for navigation and error messages.

RxFlux-Android is divided into two libraries, RxFlux-Android and RxFlux-Core. RxFlux-core is devoid of any android specific code and can be used in any Kotlin/Java project. RxFlux-Android extends classes in RxFlux-core to support the andorid platform and adds automatic subscription management for RxJava. The repo contains a brief example of how to implement this framework.

see wiki

• How to serialise viewstate

• A ***MultiStore, ***that covers screens that are repeated in an app, i.e A profile screen for multiple users, Chat conversations. They all have the same business logic with different data.

• Making business logic simpler by spliting and combining reducer and Result creators

• How to combine Stores, Reducers and resultCreators.

• Creating a store that holds the state of a connected bluetooth device and conbining that store with others to update UI.