In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about the state of android architectures and how they've stared to evolve. Kaushik recently worked on a project of coming up with an evolved version of an MVVM architecture, very similar to what the Android community now calls MVI.

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Shownotes * MBLT-Dev talk by KG : Unidirectional state flow patterns - a refactoring story * github sample repo with this pattern

Salient features of the pattern: I. Screens are driven by a single ViewModel

II. Screens listen to a single Observable exposed from the ViewModel

III. Screens listen to a single Observable exposed from the ViewModel

IV. Events are sent into the VM through a single function processInputs

V. Break(ing) the Chain

VI. Testing strategy

Inspiration * The state of managing state with RxJava * MVI patterns with Hannes Dorfmann * MVRx

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