MVI Pattern In Android Jetpack Compose

Ajay
2 min readMay 16, 2023

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Introduction

MVI is Model — View — Intent, It’s a design pattern that can be used for android application development.

MVI Stands for

  • Model — Model is responsible for fetching and providing data from tha Local or Remote source.
  • View — View represents a UI Layer, can be Fragment, Activity or anything else. In our particular case,It will be a pure compose function
  • Intent — Intent represents the user’s Actions or Events that trigger changes in the Model and the View

MVI in Android Jetpack Compose

Advantages of MVI

  • Unidirectional and Cyclic data flow — It’s a design pattern where state flows down and event flows up. With such an approach, we can decouple composable that display a state in the ui from the parts of your app that store and change the state.
  • Single Source of Truth — The primary entity in this architecture, from which all other benefits emanate.
  • Easiness of Debugging — Since we have only one source of data, it’s easy to debug.
  • Easiness of Testing — In most cases, you just need to check a new state after. some event to validate the code, and it’s quite easy to do with the right implementation.

MVI Package Architecture

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