Uses Swift 4 (working on Xcode 9)
I created this project as a way to 1. play with Swift and 2. I wanted to build it for my own use. vSPF uses Dark Sky's API and GPS to display the UV Index for the day, and gives a brief explaination of things to do to help mitigate UV exposure. Dark Sky lets you have 1000 calls a day for free Dark Sky API
I wanted to publish this to potentially help out people getting into iOS and Swift development. I am extremely thankful for the other devs who published their work for me to learn, so consider this a pay-it-forward, I guess.
Why might this interest you????
- Uses common libraries, like AlamoFire
- Simple prototype cells are used (I'll admit they were confusing when I learned them)
- JSON response handeling with SwiftyJSON
- Use of GPS (CLLocationManager) to grab GPS coordinates to get the UV Index for where you are
- Swift is the hip thing to do nowadays, so I'm told
- You are interested in not being sunburned
- Why not?
As this project does use CocoaPods, you will need to run this from the project directory. I am assuming you already have CocoaPods installed on your computer:
$ pod installIf you are not familiar with CocoaPods yet, after running that command you will now open VirtualSPF.xcworkspace and not VirtualSPF.xcodeproj in Xcode
Once that is done, inside XCode, look for the Constants folder. In there you will see a file called sampleEnvVars.swift. You will need to make a new file called envVars.swift and copy the contents of the sample file into it - being careful to change the struct name to: VSPFProtectedConstants. This has been added to .gitignore already, and is the spot where you need to put your keys.
If you haven't done so already, go to the Dark Sky API and sign up for your free key. Place that key in envVars.swift. At this point you can build the project.
As I did this as a first Swift Project, there may be things that could be done better than they are (unit tests, view stuff, etc. - I never claimed to be perfect). I will try to update when possible and respond to any issues.
Thanks to @Fresh83 for the logo 🚀