rockinbinbin/GiphyClient

🌀 FIG – Client app using the Giphy API for trending & search. Create a daily story of GIFs that match your mood.

FIG – iOS Client using the Giphy API

🌀 FIG – Client app using the Giphy API (http://giphy.com) for trending & search. Create a daily story of GIFs that match your mood.

Requirements

• iOS 9.0
• XCode 8
• Swift 3
• Cocoapods

Run the app

Install dependencies via Cocoapods (http://cocoapods.org):

$ pod install

Open GiphyClient.xcworkspace, and run the app! 😎

Features

• Trending GIFs 📈
• Search GIF by term 🔍
• Caching GIFs for fast access 🏃
• Post Gifs + text to your daily story 🌞
• Local persistence of your story 🌊

Implemented this app in MVC, using a Model to handle retrieving JSON for trending and search queries. Images are loaded async as needed, and cached in the model. Upon creating a post, Realm (https://realm.io) handles persistent storage & retrieval of today's posts, in descending order by date, like a story in Snapchat or Messenger.

Future Considerations:

• Paging search results is more memory efficient (currently loads 500 GIFs fairly quickly) 📃
• Error handling 🐞
• Unit-testing 🤓
• Consider MVVM / ReactiveCocoa for larger projects
• Design for icons, animations, etc.

Frameworks

• PureLayout [API for iOS & OS X Auto Layout]: https://github.com/PureLayout/PureLayout
• SwiftyJSON: https://github.com/SwiftyJSON/SwiftyJSON
• FLAnimatedImage [Performant animated GIF engine for iOS]: https://github.com/Flipboard/FLAnimatedImage
• Realm [Open-source object database management system]: https://realm.io
• CHTCollectionViewWaterfallLayout: https://github.com/chiahsien/CHTCollectionViewWaterfallLayout
• String / Dictionary Extensions [Percent Encoding, String from HTTP Params]: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
• Search Phrase Extension: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24200888/any-way-to-replace-characters-on-swift-string
• UITextView Placeholder Extension: https://finnwea.com/blog/adding-placeholders-to-uitextviews-in-swift