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iOS

Posted by Iván Martínez
Iván Martínez
11,278 Points

What is a "Model"?

Maybe it's a little dump, but i don't remember what's a Model. It refers to an object, as a Class or Struct?

Marie Nipper
Marie Nipper
22,638 Points

A data model represents the structure of information in an app. Apple offers a little more information on that in their tutorial

1 Answer

Moritz Lang
Moritz Lang
25,909 Points

Hi Iván Martínez, imagine that you have an app that allows users to sign up and view others profiles. This apps data model consists of a class or struct called User which defines a Blueprint for a user like so:

struct User {
    var id: String
    var username: String
    var email: String
    var password: String
    var profileImage: UIImage
}

If you reffer to the model layer of your app, you always mean something like this struct. I hope this helps :) Let me know if you have any further questions.

Iván Martínez
Iván Martínez
11,278 Points

This helped me a lot, thank you!