Explain the Adapter and Memento Pattern?

Adapter – It lets the classes with incompatible interfaces to work together and it wraps itself around the object to expose a standard interface to interact with that object.

Memento – This pattern in iOS is used as a part of state restoration. That is this externalized state can be restored without violating any encapsulation. This pattern is especially used for the archiving in Apple.

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