mikeandike/CountryRest

An iOS app that uses the free restcountries.eu api.

CountryRest

An iOS app that uses the free restcountries.eu api.

###Step 1:

• Initialize pods to get a podfile
  • pod init
• Add AFNetworking to the podfile
  • pod 'AFNetworking', '~> 2.3.1'
• Run pod install command
  • pod install

###Step 2:

• Add a network controller
  • Add a shared instance of AFHTTPSessionManager
    • Set the base URL to http://restcountries.eu/rest/v1/
    • Set the response serializer of the session manager to json
• Add an object controller
  • Use as a shared instance
• Add an object
  • Properties: name, capital, population
  • Add initWithDictionary

###Step 3:

• Add a getCountriesWithName: method with a completion handler
  • - (void)getCountriesWithName:(NSString *)name completion:(void (^)(NSArray *countries))completion;
  • The method should call GET on the [NetworkController api] then parse the response

###Step 4:

• Add an interface to the viewController
  • IBOutlet for a textField in order to populate the search
  • IBAction to trigger the search from a button
    • In the search method call the getCountries method
    • You'll need to escape the string stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding
  • IBOutlets for labels to display the country found (name, capital, population)
• In the completion of the search update the labels