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Can you explain the differences between Interactor and UseCase in application architecture?

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In application architecture, especially in the context of Android, Interactor and UseCase are often used to describe business logic, but they can have different emphases:

  • UseCase is a specific usage scenario of the application, describing a single business operation (for example, "get a list of users" or "perform a payment"). UseCase focuses on what exactly needs to be done.

  • Interactor is an implementation of the UseCase, a class that contains the logic to execute this scenario. The Interactor interacts with repositories, services, and other layers to implement the business logic.

Simply put, a UseCase is a concept or interface, and an Interactor is a concrete implementation of that concept. In some architectures, these terms can be used interchangeably, but separation helps better structure the code and separate the task description from its implementation.