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Building a Weather Application From Scratch
Efficiently Refreshing Weather Data
Building a Weather Application From Scratch
| 1 | Introduction 03:30 |
|---|---|
| 2 | Setting Up the Project Plus 07:15 |
| 3 | View Controller Containment Plus 12:08 |
| 4 | Fetching Weather Data 05:59 |
| 5 | Removing Object Literals Plus 07:54 |
| 6 | Creating a View Model Plus 13:09 |
| 7 | Parsing the JSON Response Plus 13:56 |
| 8 | Handling Errors and Notifying the User Plus 14:28 |
| 9 | Adding Flexibility With Protocols Plus 14:11 |
| 10 | Creating the Day and Week View Models Plus 07:33 |
| 11 | Creating the User Interface of the Day View Controller Plus 12:52 |
| 12 | Organizing Fonts and Colors Plus 06:45 |
| 13 | Implementing the Day View Model 15:55 |
| 14 | Writing Unit Tests for the Day View Model Plus 12:57 |
| 15 | Implementing the Week View Model Plus 12:37 |
| 16 | Writing Unit Tests for the Week View Model Plus 07:10 |
| 17 | Fetching Weather Data for the User's Location Plus 13:32 |
| 18 | Increasing Testability With Protocol-Oriented Programming 14:47 |
| 19 | Replacing Optionals with Enums and Associated Values Plus 09:30 |
| 20 | Efficiently Refreshing Weather Data Plus 08:48 |
| 21 | Adding Pull to Refresh Plus 09:40 |
The application fetches the location of the device on launch and it subsequently asks the Dark Sky API for weather data for that location. That's fine, but it isn't sufficient. What happens if the user backgrounds the application and opens it several hours later. The weather data may be out of date and, if they're traveling, the location of the device may have changed.
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