An Advanced, User-Friendly App for Exploring the Rick & Morty Universe
Change Type
New Feature Work
Bug Fix
INFRA
Description
The Rick & Morty app includes the following major features:
Four Major Tabs: Characters, Locations, Episodes, Settings
Pagination: Efficient handling of large data sets
Light & Dark Mode: Supports both themes for better user experience
Universal App: Designed for both iPhone and iPad
Integrated SwiftUI views within a UIKit application for modern and declarative UI components.
Implemented infinite scrolling in lists to load more data as the user scrolls down.
Efficiently loaded data in batches to reduce memory usage and improve performance.
Used parallel async tasks to fetch multiple sets of data simultaneously, reducing wait times.
Cached images locally to reduce redundant network calls and improve load times.
Integrated SafariServices to display web content seamlessly within the app's settings screen.
Utilized StoreKit to prompt users for app ratings and reviews, improving app visibility and feedback.
Compositional Layout:
[1] Adaptive Layouts: Created complex and adaptive collection view layouts that adjust to different screen sizes and orientations.
[2] Section-Based Design: Designed collection views with multiple sections and varying layouts to display content dynamically.
Technologies Used
UIKit
Swift
SwiftUI
Compositional Layout
Programatic UI
MVVM Architecture
Pagination
Networking
Search & filter functinality
Parallel Async Work
Image Caching
Caching prior API response (In-memory cache)
DispatchGroup
SafariServices: To show web view in settings screen
StoreKit: To show prompt and get app ratings from the user.
