C4QWeather

View a 7 day weather forecast for Long Island City. Temperatures shown are min&max temperatures, as well as the forecast day. I used Swift 3 and followed the MVC Design Pattern.

Implementation

I chose MVC as the design pattern for this project because it's what I'm most used to, and through careful abstraction, can be very organized. I used GCD to make my data fetching asynchronous. Because they are public functions, this leads to reusability in future projects. I implemented error handling in my WeatherStatus file, and took advantage of guards early exit feature to ensure any errors from the backend were handled.

I chose to make the UI in Interface Builder because I like seeing the app's flow and design easily. Another reason being this is a 1 screen app.

Through my use of extensions, I've allowed my view controllers to stay organized.

Pods

• SwiftyJSON (handle JSON data better and more easily)
• Alamofire (to make networking simpler, and used in conjunction with SwiftyJSON)

Requirements

• Xcode 8
• iOS 10.0
• Swift 3

Installation

• Install Cocoapods.
• cd to directory and use pod init to create a Podfile

open Podfile

• Add the following to Podfile

  source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
  platform :ios, '10.0'
  use_frameworks!
  
  pod 'Alamofire', '~> 3.0’
  pod 'SwiftyJSON', '2.4.0'

• Save and install pods

pod install

• Open C4QWeather.xcworkspace

Future Plans

• Implement unit and ui tests
• Reduce the configureFahrenheit and configureCelsius functions to be one, so there is less code repetiton as possible!