Introduction :
Tourist Helper is iOS Single View application designed to aid users for getting a certain city's weather & atmospheric conditions including Humidity , Wind speed & Pressure etc.
Tourist Helper also helps the Tourist in terms of latest Currency conversion rates across the World. Default Exchange rate is set to US Dollars.
Build Homepage "Sensehack"
Usage :
Through a Slider Picker , user can choose the country of desired currency rate for conversion.
User could search for a certain city or town by "name" parameters or using Latitude + Longitude combo to get approximate Weather location nearby.
User Interface of Tourist Helper :
For Currency convertor is having a different view for calculation of currency in terms of Exchange rate.
The cities we searched are been saved by the application. So it remembers last used Cities weather & it would be displayed in Table View Form.
API calls Behind the Scenes :
Tourist Helper gains all the weather information from using Api JSON responses via "http://openweathermap.org/" with API ID encoded in the App.
Regarding getting latest currency rates , we get that JSON parsed data from "http://fixer.io" with no need of registration for API.
Github : https://github.com/hakanensari/fixer-io/
Icons Link :
Made a splash screen. Yet to link it. Icons by icons 8 Link SensehacK
Feel free to fork this project & raise a pull request to add more relevant information regarding development tools used in iOS ecosystem.
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