This is my project submission for the GOAT Group iOS New Grad Challenge Submission.
To built a weather app using the https://openweathermap.org/api/one-call-api API.
Used Alamofire - Alamofire is an elegant and composable way to interface to HTTP network requests. It builds on top of Apple's URL Loading System provided by the Foundation framework. Ideally, I would have liked to use Apple's native URLSession since it is more secure. Using Alamofire can create a security vulnerability since our App is dependant on a third-party package.
I used SwiftUI over UIKit - Easy to build out UI componenets. Also allows for easy implementation for reactive code.
Forced Unwrapped some values in some areas. We should be saftely unwrapping with guard or if let statements.
Did not focus on user-experience. i.e showing activity indicator when loading response.
Refresh button will work when CLLocatioon has collected at least one CLLocation value.
The project has the following third-party dependecie. Uses Swift Packages for package management:
- Alamofire - for HTTP Requests @ https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire
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- This project is built using Apple's SwiftUI - user interface toolkit that lets us design apps in a **declarative way
This project follows the Model, View, ViewModel (MVVM) structural design pattern*
- Services: Handles API related services. Utilizes the Alamofire framework.
- Models: Models of different components.
- ViewModels: Includes files responsible for exposing the data objects from the model in such a way that objects are easily managed and presented.
- Extensions: Includes the extenstions made to any foundation swift class.
- Views: Includes views of different components built with SwiftUI.
macOS Big Sur or later and xCode 13.1 to build this project. iOS 15.0+ to deploy.
To clone this project in Xcode, click "Clone or download" and select "Open in Xcode".