Using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to grab live data from a Weather API online
The weather app has an elegant UI that is dark-mode enabled. It can check the weather for the current location based on the GPS data from the iPhone as well as by searching for a city manually.
- Dark-mode enabled app.
- Vector images as image assets.
- The UITextField to get user input.
- The delegate pattern.
- Swift protocols and extensions.
- Swift guard keyword.
- Swift computed properties.
- Swift closures and completion handlers.
- URLSession to network and make HTTP requests.
- JSON Parsing with the native Encodable and Decodable protocols.
- Grand Central Dispatch to fetch the main thread.
- Core Location to get the current location from the phone GPS.
switch conditionID {
case 200...232:
return "cloud.bolt"
case 300...321:
return "cloud.drizzle"
case 500...531:
return "cloud.rain"
case 600...622:
return "cloud.snow"
case 701...781:
return "cloud.fog"
case 800:
return "sun.max"
case 801...804:
return "cloud.bolt"
default:
return "cloud"
}
This is a companion project to The App Brewery's Complete App Development Bootcamp. (https://www.appbrewery.co/)