Build a LIVE Weather Application with Xcode! PROMO: EASY13

Name: Build a LIVE Weather Application with Xcode! PROMO: EASY13
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Learn how to build a live weather application from scratch with the new Xcode 7.3. Macbook OS X El Capitan.

Created byBryan Okafor

Last updated 2/2017

English

What you'll learn

Build a complete Weather Application.
Grab information from the internet and into their application
Parse internet data to JSON language

Course content

6 sections • 29 lectures • 4h 8m total length

Introduction Video for Live Weather Application1:55
Welcome and thank you for taking this course. My name is Bryan Okafor. I am a Software Engineer that travels all around the world deploying software for my company. But in this course I am going to teach you how to build a Live Weather Application. Be ready to learn some new tricks and polish your skills.

Swift2 Variables5:40
In this course we will be going over the basics for creating variable contents.
Swift2 Comments2:13
In this lecture you will know the basics of commenting out code.
Swift2 If, For, While and Switch Statements7:18
Swift2 Strings2:49
In this video I am going to show you examples of strings.
Swift2 Arrays6:14
In this lecture we are going to be learning how to use arrays.
Swift2 Dictionaries5:15
Swift2 Functions3:13

Start the Build of your Weather Application7:58
In this video we will start the build of our Weather Application. By the end of this video we will learn how to create an application from scratch.
Adding an Alert Controller9:18
In this video we will add an alert controller to our weather application. This alert controller is how we will call on our city to get the weather information.
Creating an Alert Text8:05
In continuation of building our alert controller, we will now create an alert text for the controller.
Adding a Delegate Function13:33
This video talks about using the Delegate pattern to allow communication between classes.
Creating a Struct12:01
This video covers the creation of a Struct used to hold weather data.
Create a Free account on openweathermap.org5:39
In this video I'll talk about working with the OpenWeatherMap.org API. We will be using the JSON API.
App Transport Security work around11:23
Here we need to set some obscure options to make our app compatible with OpenWeatherMap. This involves editing our info.plist in our project.
JSON Conversion10:26
Here we will add the SwiftyJSON library and use it to parse JSON data loaded from OpenWeatherMap.org.
Display Weather Information10:37
In this video were going to be using NSURL with NSURLSession to load JSON from OpenWeatherMap.org.
Call City Name4:37
in this lecture we will look at the URL and escaping strings to be used in the URL query string. To make this work we will use a function with a name that is as long as your arm, though very descriptive: stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters
Change Select City Button to the City called6:35
In this lecture we will set the title of a UIButton to the name of the city.

Add Weather Icons to Xcode10:38
In this lecture you will add the weather application icons to your application.
Application Design Part112:48
In this lecture we will start designing our application. We will also add in extra weather data information like temperature min and max.
Application Design Part211:20
This is a continuation video of the last designing your application video.
Add Degree Symbol8:19
Internet Error Message14:15
In this lecture we will create a error message for our application incase there is an internet error while using our app.
Internet Error Message Part 27:54

Requirements

Download Xcode 7.3.1
You should be semi familiar with Swift 2
You may have to create a free account with openweathermap.com

Description

Live Weather Application!

If you are a beginner in application development, or expert developer looking for some new tricks, you've come to the right place. In this course you will not only learn the basics in building a application from scratch you will also learn how to pull LIVE information from the internet and into your application. Here's what we'll cover:

How to create a full work application
How to create an alert controller
How to create an alert action
How to add a struct in your project
How to pull live data from the internet
How to parse data from the internet to JSON
How to adjust info.plist in order to except http URLs
How to create images and icons through Sketch
... and etc.

What are the requirements?

Xcode 7
At least a beginner knowledge in iOS programming with Swift
access to the internet

What is the target audience?

iOS developer who want to enhance their skills in coding Swift Language
iOS application designers
All level developers looking for something new!

Who this course is for:

This development course is for any developer looking to exercise their skills.

Build a LIVE Weather Application with Xcode! PROMO: EASY13

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Introduction1 lecture • 2min

Swift Basics7 lectures • 33min

Creating the Main Part of the Application11 lectures • 1hr 40min

Create Weather Icons Using Sketch3 lectures • 44min

Design and Clean up the Application6 lectures • 1hr 5min

Extras1 lecture • 4min

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