StackExchange API Sample

Overview

Calls StackExchange API user endpoint to retrieve Stack Overflow user information.

Features

• Downloads user's avatar once and saves it locally (e.g., app's document directory)

  • App will cache image to speed up retrieval and reduce file I/O

• Supports pull-down-refresh (UsersTableViewController)

• Allow user to force download avatars

CocoaPods referenced

• AFNetworking (3.0)
  • make web services calls - has nice API
  • could easily use NSURLSession (improvement over NSURLConnection)
• OCMapper (2.0)
  • map API JSON response to app models
• SDWebImage (4.0)
  • asynchronously download avatar images
  • popular, maintained and well known pod

App Screenshots

Shows avatars stored in app's document directory.

Users

User Details

Settings