Sample project showing a common architecture I use when creating iOS Projects.

The project itself is quite simple:

• Getting Yahoo's Sports feed from their XML RSS.
• Parse it
• Returning the results to the UIViewController, where then they can be showed.

There are many ways of doing it, although I think mine bring some advantages.

You will need cocoapods in order to build this project

One of the main issue across the iOS development ecosystem is the lack of a well stablished architecture, from small to big applications.
There is also a huge gap of Repositories/Projects/Samples that show how an app should look like, from a architectural point of view.

You can see that when:

• You have mixed Logic with UI.
• You cannot see the boundaries between the Controller and the Model (MVC)
• Your UIViewControllers suprass the 300 lines (From my experience when a UIViewController passes that frontier, normally something could be done better)
• It's not clear for you where things are and how to use them.

Each project has it's own demons, so what I want with this sample project, is a way for iOS developers to have a reference for what they should always try to achieve:

• Thrive for small, simple, clean, understandable and maintainable classes.
• Respect the Single Responsability Principle.
• Respect the DRY Principle.
• Respect the 4 OOP principles: Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance, Polymorphism.
• Create methods that do one and only one thing (this is specially useful for Unit Testing).
• Create meaningful names for your methods, classes, variables, properties. This is one of the most underestimate part of coding.

Well, this is up to you. Start by adding some breakpoints and keep pushing until you understand what's going on. If you find it's a bit difficult to use/understand it, send me an email, or open an issue, and I will try to assist the best I can. If you happen to use this architecture in one of your apps, just flagg it for me. :)

I am more than happy to change the current structure of this project, based on people suggestions. The goal here is to improve the way we code. So please, if you think that something is fundamentaly wrong, or that could be improved, open an issue, or make a pull request.

This code is distributed under the terms and conditions of the MIT license.