StackTracker - Objective-C Coding Challenge
Objectives:
- Connect to Stackoverflow Users API Endpoint and retrieve the first page of data. FULL API documentation
- Display the retrieved data through a TableView.
- Display at least username, badges and gravatar for every user.
- While the gravatar is being downloaded, the UI should show a loading animation.
- Each of the photos should be downloaded only once and stored for offline usage.
- The UI should always be responsive.
Libraries Used
Cocoapods:
pod 'AFNetworking'
- Trusted networking library for the API GET request
pod 'SDWebImage'
- Extends the UIImageView class to retrieve and cache any web images using their url's as keys
pod 'PureLayout'
- Convenient shorthand for auto layout when designing interfaces.
Comments
- Estimated time spent:
4 - 5 hours - Built with Xcode-beta
- Took inspiration from Robinhood and the iOS app store.