Star Wars Swift Concurrency Workshop

App Builders 2022

Start

• Empty SwiftUI project

Stage 1

• Add a Person DTO and a basic async Data request.

Stage 2

• Generalize Decodable get.
• Rename Person.

Stage 3

• Generalize Decodable get. Rename Person to "People" for consistency.
• Fetch and display a page of people.

Stage 4

• Add a Film placeholder view with async loading.

Stage 5

• Add aggresive caching to request!

Stage 6

• Introduce a people view model and fetch all pages.

Stage 7

• Separate People List view.

Stages 8, 9

• Add a People detail view.

Stages 10, 11

• Add a Film detail view.

Stage 12

• Experiment: Request films concurrently (pretending we always have 3) with async let.

Stage 13

• Fetch all films concurrently with a TaskGroup.

Stage 14

• Generalize fetching of any Decodable from a collection of URLs.

Stage 15

• Add a getAllPossible generic function that tries to fetch as many URLs as possible.

Stage 16

• Add an opening crawl view.
• Add mock JSON for people and film (for previews).