Build a RESTFul API Weather App with Alamofire & Swift 5

Sign up for open weather, create a new API key, and install Alamofire and SkeletonView in your Swift 5 weather app to enable API calls and loading placeholders.

Create a robust weather manager, call the OpenWeatherMap API for current data, and decode it into a Swift weather data model mapping name, temperature, and description.

Fetch weather by city using a weather manager and a completion handler with a result type, then update the UI with the weather data and show a skeleton loading animation.

Create a custom add city UI from a plus button, presenting a modal form with labels, text input, and an activity indicator inside a stack view.

Map weather condition IDs to icons and update the weather image in the user interface by converting API payload into a weather model and using a computed condition image.

Configure the city form to show the keyboard on load by making the city text view the first responder. Use a tap gesture to dismiss when tapping outside.

Implement form validation for the city search by guarding non-empty input, showing an inline error when empty, and revealing the search area while hiding the status label.

Wire a search button to fetch weather by city with a weather manager, show an activity indicator during search, handle success or error, and update the status accordingly.

Use delegates and a weather view controller delegate protocol to pass a weather model from city to weather view, update the view, dismiss after a delay, and hide the keyboard.

Build robust error handling for a weather app by decoding server payloads, introducing a custom weather error with a city not found message, and validating 4xx responses.

Implement a location manager to obtain the user's current coordinates, manage authorization statuses, and update the weather page with location-based data via CLLocationManager and delegate methods.

Fetch user coordinates by tapping the location button, handle location permission, receive updates via a delegate method, and print the latest latitude and longitude from the coordinates.

Fetch weather data using coordinates with the open weather map api and api key. Refactor to a reusable handle request function and update the ui on the main thread.

Refactor a weather app to remove duplicated code by adding city and location based fetch, using latitude and longitude, and a centralized result handler to update data and animations.

Demonstrate error handling by replacing console prints with a toast using the Loaf library, showing a top message like 'something went wrong. please try again.'

Modularize error handling by extracting a private function handleError(error:) and applying it to location manager failures and invalid city scenarios, ensuring clear user messages.

Learn to simulate the device location by editing the scheme and enabling location simulation, test with San Francisco, Honolulu, and Jakarta, noting the default is Sydney and occasional inconsistency.

Refactor and clean up the weather app by fixing grammar and copy, improving error messages, and moving alerts to the bottom for clearer location permission prompts and city search handling.

Add a launch screen by placing an image view on the storyboard, set 200-point width and height, center it, and use a sun icon from assets for the launch preview.

Learn how to add app icons, resize assets for iPhone and iPad, use an icon generator, and change the app display name in a Swift app.

Set a custom location using the simulator, choose a place on Google Maps, copy its latitude and longitude, and update the app to show the new city.