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An iOS app that allows you to visit places without ever setting foot there, by downloading images from Flickr's api.

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Virtual Tourist

This app allows you to take a photo tour of places; by downloading pictures from Flickr.

Overview

This photo touring app, allows you to select a position on the map and download photos from that area. You can keep downloading more photo collections, remove images, remove and set locations.

Technologies Used

UIKit, MapKit, Core Data, JSON, Asynchronous Downloads, RESTful API, HTTPS Requests.

Example usage

Download the app, and run in Xcode simulator

  • Basic usage
    Hold down and drag the pin on the map to a point you want to see photo centered around.
    Click the pin to see a collection of images
  • Deleting pins
    Click edit then click on pins to delete them, click edit to exit this mode.
  • Collection View usage
    You can delete photos by clicking on them and hitting the delete button.
    If you want a whole new batch of images click New Collection.
  • Optional
    You can turnoff prefetching of images in the upper left corner if it's affecting you internet connection.
    This will delay fetching of images until you reach the collection view.

How to set up the dev environment

No setup needed for development environment

How to ship a change

Changes are not accepted at this time

Change log

  • 02-26-2017 Updated to Swift 3
  • 08-21-2016 Initial Commit

License and author info

MIT License Author: jongs.j@gmail.com

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