MVC pattern on Android

java android design-patterns model-view-controller
Mohit Deshpande picture Mohit Deshpande · May 27, 2010 · Viewed 244.5k times · Source

Is it possible to implement the model–view–controller pattern in Java for Android?

Or is it already implemented through Activities? Or is there a better way to implement the MVC pattern for Android?

Answer

Pentium10 picture Pentium10 · May 28, 2010

In Android you don't have MVC, but you have the following:

  • You define your user interface in various XML files by resolution, hardware, etc.
  • You define your resources in various XML files by locale, etc.
  • You extend clases like ListActivity, TabActivity and make use of the XML file by inflaters.
  • You can create as many classes as you wish for your business logic.
  • A lot of Utils have been already written for you - DatabaseUtils, Html.

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