Marshroute

Overview

This repo contains the source code for making your Routers simple but extremely powerful!

Every Router-driven transition is always forwarded to the topmost UIViewController to make it super easy to support DeepLinks and for example present Authorization module from any point of your application. I prefer doing this right from my root application's Router.

This repo allows you to drive your transitions in a super clean, descriptive and flexible fashion. For example pretend the following code is taken from your root application's Router:

func showAuthorization() {
    pushViewControllerDerivedFrom { routerSeed -> UIViewController in
        let authorizationAssembly = assemblyFactory.authorizationAssembly()

        let viewController = authorizationAssembly.module(
            routerSeed: routerSeed
        )

        return viewController
    }
}

This code pushes an Authorization view controller to the top UINavigationController's stack. The routerSeed parameter is only used to create a Router for the Authorization module.

The magic here is in this line of code:

pushViewControllerDerivedFrom { routerSeed -> UIViewController in

You can easily change the presentation style in favor of a modal transition by simply changing it to:

presentModalNavigationControllerWithRootViewControllerDerivedFrom { routerSeed -> UIViewController in

If for some reason you do not need a UINavigationController for your Authorization module, you may accomplish this by:

presentModalViewControllerDerivedFrom { routerSeed -> UIViewController in

Once again, the transition will be forwarded to the top, keeping the Router very plain and straightforward. So that, the Router keeps being responsible for only one thing: selecting the style of a transition.

Tuning the transition animation

You may add an animator to customize the way your transition looks like. For example

func showCategories() {
    presentModalNavigationControllerWithRootViewControllerDerivedFrom( { routerSeed -> UIViewController in
        let categoriesAssembly = assemblyFactory.categoriesAssembly()

        let viewController = categoriesAssembly.module(
            routerSeed: routerSeed
        )

        return viewController
    }, animator: RecursionAnimator())
}

The key line here is

}, animator: RecursionAnimator())

So the syntax remains clean and it is super easy to switch back to the original animation style.

Demo

Check out the demo project. This demo is written in Swift using VIPER architecture and shows all the capabilities which Routers are now full of.

Run this demo on a simulator and check out what happens if you simulate a memory warning or a device shake. You will see several types of transitions driven by the root module's Router (i.e. a UITabBarController's Router).

The demo project targets both iPhone and iPad and adds some minor differences to their navigation behaviors by creating distinct Router implementations for every supported device idiom, thus highlighting the value of moving the navigation logic from the View layer in favor of a Router layer.

When you tap a blue timer tile, you schedule a reverse transition to the module that tile belongs to. To see this effect taking place, you should make several transitions deeper into the navigation stack.

Requirements

• iOS 8.0+
• Xcode 7.3+

Installation

CocoaPods

To install Marshroute using CocoaPods, add the following lines to your Podfile:

source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
platform :ios, '8.0'
use_frameworks!

pod 'Marshroute'

Then run pod install command. For details of the installation and usage of CocoaPods, visit its official website.

Carthage

To install Marshroute using Carthage, add the following lines to your Cartfile:

github "avito-tech/Marshroute" ~> 0.3.3

Then run carthage update --platform iOS command. For details of the installation and usage of Carthage, visit its repo website.

Contacts

Feel free to send your questions at tyusipov@avito.ru

License

MIT

Objective-c support

The framework is written in pure swift using its latest features, so if you want to use Marshroute in your objective-c application you will have to write your Routers in swift.