Course Information
Course Overview
Learn REST API calls with Alamofire 5 by building a fully featured weather app
Welcome to the Build a RESTFul API Weather App with Alamofire & Swift 5 course.
This course is designed for iOS developers with at least 6 to 9 months experience or web developers who want to learn to make network or RESTful APIs calls on the iOS platform. The lessons are designed to provide student the thought process and skillset required to make HTTPS calls with a secured API key via building a concise and fully functional weather app. In this course, students will also learn to build the views via the storyboard with auto layout and stack views. The project is built according to the MVC architecture which reinforces good coding practices such as the DRY principle, separation of concerns and keep code readable, neat and modular.
These are some comments from students of courses by the instructor:
Excellent Content, I appreciate the different styles of onboarding screens and all the great explanation! - Carey M
The course is very concise but informative . I really like the project based approach that this course takes. It cuts straight to the chases and show you how these abstract concepts are put into real life problems . Highly recommended - AN Dinh
Really easy to follow and great for beginners. Really enjoyed the course, thanks Kelvin! - Atiqah A.K
Perfect course to help me get started on ios programming! - Tan Kel Vin
The instructor is knowledgeable and clear with his instructions. The course is great and informative for those who are planning to build a skeleton they can build on their own app projects Instructor is also helpful. - Raphael Lim
Course Content
- 9 section(s)
- 28 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Project File
- Section 3 Getting Started
- Section 4 Display Primary Weather
- Section 5 New City Search
- Section 6 Current Location Weather
- Section 7 Cleaning up, refactoring and final thoughts
- Section 8 Bonus
- Section 9 Bonus Lectures: Questions From Students
What You’ll Learn
- RESTful API calls
- Obtain an API key from Open Weather Map
- Alamofire 5 Response Decodable
- Skeletonview animation
- Get the current user's coordinates via CoreLocation
- Create custom LocalizedErrors
- Handle 404 errors gracefully
- Modal View Controller
- Handle CLLocationManager authorization status
- Form Validation
- Protocols and Delegates
- Write clean modular code
- MVC App Architecture
- Install 3rd party libraries via Cocoapods
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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EEnrico Irawan
Although i enroll this course in 2023, the explanation was so clear for beginner like me, Good Job
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MMaciej Cantop
Good explanation of Storyboards, nice practices, really happy I bought this course, even though it is few years olds, there are not many problems and overall it is still a great tutorial
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AAndy Taranto
Really enjoyed Kelvin's style and explanations
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MMatheus Berger
O instrutor é um pouco confuso na sua forma de passar instruções. Parece não haver um script de aula, o instrutor passa a impressão de que vai improvisando a medida que faz. O esquema de nomeação de classes também é desnecessariamente confuso.