you’ve probably heard the term, but do you know what it means? While most developers probably agree that design patterns are very important, there aren’t many articles on the subject and we developers sometimes don’t pay too much attention to design patterns while writing code.(Need of Design patterns with image)

Design patterns are reusable solutions to common problems in software design. They’re templates designed to help you write code that’s easy to understand and reuse. They also help you create loosely coupled code so that you can change or replace components in your code without too much hassle.

The question is how to write a code for design patterns? But do not worry this is not the code to write. These are just things to keep in mind while writting a code.(Question mark image)

Mainly there are 3 types of design patterns in ios.

• Creational: Singleton.

• Structural: MVC(link to another blog iwth image), Decorator, Adapter, Facade. 

• Behavioral: Observer, and, Memento

Singleton(We can put a code example with image)

This is the most commanly used design patterns across the world. Moreover, this is very easy to implement and easy to understand. Thus, Lets start with no wasting of time.

The Singleton design pattern ensures a class only has one instance, and provides a global point of access to it. The class keeps track of its sole instance and ensures that no other instance can be created. Singleton classes are appropriate for situations where it makes sense for a single object to provide access to a global resource. It usually uses lazy loading to create the single instance when it’s needed the first time.

Facade

The Facade design pattern provides a single interface to a complex subsystem. Instead of exposing the user to a set of classes and their APIs, you only expose one simple unified API.

This pattern is ideal when working with a large number of classes, particularly when they are complicated to use or difficult to understand.

Decorator

The Decorator pattern dynamically adds behaviors and responsibilities to an object without modifying its code. It’s an alternative to subclassing where you modify a class’s behavior by wrapping it with another object.

Memento

In Memento Pattern saves your stuff somewhere. Later on, this externalized state can be restored without violating encapsulation; that is, private data remains private. Implementations example of the Memento pattern is Archiving, Serialization and State Restoration.

Adapter

The Adapter design pattern converts the interface of a class into another interface that clients expect. Adapter lets classes work together that couldn’t otherwise because of incompatible interfaces. It decouples the client from the class of the targeted object. Apple uses protocols to do the job. You may be familiar with protocols like UITableViewDelegate, UIScrollViewDelegate, NSCoding and NSCopying. As an example, with the NSCopying protocol, any class can provide a standard copy method.

Observer

The Observer design pattern defines a one-to-many dependency between objects so that when one object changes state, all its dependents are notified and updated automatically. The Observer pattern is essentially a publish-and-subscribe model in which the subject and its observers are loosely coupled. Communication can take place between the observing and observed objects without either needing to know much about the other. Cocoa implements the observer pattern in two ways: Notifications and Key-Value Observing (KVO).