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I have an activity with two fragments attached, Fragment/View A controlled by Presenter A and Fragment/View B controlled by Presenter B. View A is on the top half of the screen and does not change through the life of the activity. View B takes the lower half of the screen and is swapped out when navigating to another fragment/view.

The problem is that Presenter B needs to communicate up to View A or Presenter A to manipulate it by adding objects to it or changing how the data is represented. How can this be done without Presenter B knowing or caring that View A exists to keep these features separate? Also, not every Presenter B needs to manipulate View A.

            View A
         /
Activity  ----------------
         \
            View B

Some ideas I had and the problems they have

1) Presenter B -> View B -> Activity -> View A -> Presenter A -> View A

Problem: Duplicate common methods on each View B, duplicate method when calling to activity to then call to View A, boucing between View A and Presenter A to update the model

2) Presenter B -> Model A -> Presenter A -> View A

Problem: It makes sense for some data to pass through Model A and inform the presenter, but there are a few things that are not data related and just need to manipulate the view directly

3) Presenter B -> View A -> Presenter A -> View A

Problem: Two presenters are now controlling one view, boucing between View A and Presenter A to update the model

4) Use the bus to post events from Presenter B to Presenter A

Problem: The bus is too easy to abuse and interfaces are easier to follow the flow

5) Any other ideas?

Here is an example of our current code and the first idea described

https://gist.github.com/UndefinedPotato/c9011994d7e8958c50d6b92f7dcbfc37

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  • This is really abstract. Do you have a specific, concrete example from your actual problem domain that we can work with?
    – Robert Harvey
    Jun 22, 2018 at 19:17
  • Here is a basic example of what we have in the code now. This would be idea 1 that I've outlined. gist.github.com/UndefinedPotato/…
    – user308756
    Jun 22, 2018 at 20:35

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By using events. Presenter B raises events when certain things occur. Anyone interested can listen. Right now it may be A, but in the future X,Y, & Z can listen too. B doesn’t care, it just keeps on raising the same events.

Some languages support events as first class citizens, but in Java this is often implemented as the observer pattern. In fact, the Android API even has Observer and Observable interfaces.

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