A simple iPhone application that uses the version 2 of The RESTful Pokémon Data API at http://pokeapi.co/ (open source).
The iOS application is written in Swift 2.2 using Xcode 7.3. An iPhone 6 with iOS 9.3.1 was used for testing.
The app was written over the course of 10 days.
Only a selected subset of the API is used.
Most of the UI elements are defined through InterfaceBuilder. Please have a look at the Main.storyboard file in IB.
You can find the code on my GitHub account: https://github.com/dgollub/pokealmanac
Showing the basic list and details page.
Showing the map interaction.
The app caches the PokeAPI RESTful responses in a local SQLite database, however modified/created timestamps are not available in version 2 of the API so there is no cache invalidation for now.
- The
PokemonDetailViewControllerlooks wonky/distorted on iPhone 5 and 4. - The LauchScreen.storyboard has a UITabBar, but the custom tab bar items don't show their assigend images on the real device, only on the simulator
- The PokeAPI.co site has quite a few documentation errors. Example: /api/v2/pokemon/ has a "moves" property that is supposed to be a list of NamedAPIResource (with type Move entries), however the API returns something slightly different. Same for PokemonType that has a "type" property that is supposed to be "string", but it is clearly a NamedAPIResource.
Make sure you have the following libraries and tools installed:
- XCode Version 7.3 (7D175) (or better)
- CocoaPods
- Python 2.7 (only needed if you want to re-create the generated Swift files from the API again)
Open up the *.xcworkspace file with Xcode and hit that compile button. Enjoy.
(You may have to adjust the team and code signing options before it works.)
Copyright (c) 2016 by Daniel Kurashige-Gollub [email protected]
Pokemon Icon by Chris Banks License: CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivate 4.0 http://www.iconarchive.com/show/cold-fusion-hd-icons-by-chrisbanks2/pokemon-icon.html
Most other icons are from https://icons8.com
Fonts: Roboto, Noto by Google Material Design https://www.google.com/design/spec/style/typography.html
Licensed under MIT license. See LICENSE file.