In the early days of Swift, working with JSON was clunky and inelegant. Most developers relied on third party libraries that simplified this tedious task. The Swift team was aware of this gap in the Swift standard library and, after focusing on the foundation of the language first, they introduced the Codable
protocol in Swift 4. The Codable
protocol is a powerful solution that makes working with JSON quick, easy, and intuitive.
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Building a Weather Application From Scratch
Parsing the JSON Response
by Bart Jacobs in Swift
Swift 4
Xcode 9
iOS 11
Building a Weather Application From Scratch
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03:30
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07:15
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12:08
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05:59
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07:54
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13:09
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7 Parsing the JSON Response
13:56
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12 Organizing Fonts and Colors
06:45
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13 Implementing the Day View Model
15:55
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15 Implementing the Week View Model
12:37
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20 Efficiently Refreshing Weather Data
08:48
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09:40
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22 Unit Testing With Mock Objects
10:49
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23 Unit Testing Asynchronous Code
06:40
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08:28
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25 Exposing Gaps in the Test Suite
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