Application Type

UIKit

Application Name

VirtualTourist

Objective

A MapKit powered app to Pin location/s on a Map, then view a collection of (publically available) photos uploaded to Flickr, matching the geo-coordinates of the Pinned location/s.

Demo

Core Technologies

• UIKit

• MapKit

• MVC, Extensions

• Core Data (Data Persistence)

• User Session Management

• Flickr REST API w/ JSON (GET)

• Observer / Notifications

• URLSession, dataTask, URLComponents, URLQueryItems (Networking)

• Closures

• Custom Completion handlers (@escaping functions)

• Parent, Child View Controllers

• Protocol / Delegate (Data Communication Pattern)

• Decodable

• Generics (Result Type)

• UICollectionView, Custom UICollectionViewCell

• Enum

• Version Control (Git, Github)

Versions

• June, 2020

Deployment information

• Deployment Target (iOS version): 13.x
• Supported Devices: iPhone only