Hello! I hope you can help me with understanding MVI architecture. I'm experimenting with MVIKotlin and I'm trying to create chat application. Lets assume that it will look like Slack client, then we all know what I'm talking about. My problem is what exactly "Component" is. Currently my app should have two screens: ConfigurationScreen and ConversationsScreen. ConversationsScreen contains list of channels on the left and messages history with input panel on the right. I assume that

ConfigurationScreen

and

ConversationsScreen

should be Component with their own stores, intents and results. For example

ConversationsScreen

state will have state containing

selectedChannel

. The question is: does

MessageHistoryWithInput

should be Component with their own store (containing: loaded message list), own intents (

SendMessage

,

LoadedMessageList

) etc? How to embed this component inside

ConversationsScreen

component? Does anyone has any example?

Hello! MVIKotlin library itself does not bring such as thing as "Component". You can check the Responsibility section of the Readme. So it is up to developers how to organise projects. However I would recommend to split the

ConversationsScreen

screen by multiple sub-components. E.g.

ConversationList

and

Conversation

components, and encapsulate them in a parent component

Messenger

. The

Conversation

component can be also split by

ConversationMessages

and

ConversationInput

sub-components. Everything of-course depends on complexity of each component.

Thanks. I will read more about it