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Prashant Mishra @prashantrmishra

Abstract Factory Pattern In UI Toolkit Development

Abstract Factory Pattern creates factories of factories, used when creating objects of different product families. It defines interfaces & concrete implementations for products & creators, ensuring correct UI components based on operating system.

It is part of creational design pattern, used to create factory of factories
It is used when we want to create objects of products of different family
Structure:
Product: Defines the interface for objects the factory method creates.
ConcreteProduct: Implements the Product interface.
Creator: Declares the factory method, which returns an object of type Product.
ConcreteCreator: Overrides the factory method to return an instance of a ConcreteProduct.
Let us understand this with an example: 
Suppose you're developing a UI toolkit that should work on different operating systems. You could use the...