CityLife

An iOS Objective-C application for finding specific venues near a user's location. An animated Gif should display shortly (Note: Actual application is much smoother)

Objective

• Build a iPhone & iPad application that queries FourSquare
• Explore Fousquare API CategoryTree
• Fun Personal Project to showcase my talent

Features

• Initial launch displays collection view of Images
  • Images are directly from Foursquare
  • Cells are of dynamic height depending upon text length
• TableView has subcell support for improved category precision
• Displays a plethora of categories onto map
• Detail Venue Screen
  • Venue image shown (if available)
  • Dynamically displays information only if available
    • Call: Directly contact them
    • Website: Deep Link into Safari browser
    • twitter: Deep Link into Twitter app
    • Menu: Display Menu onto webview
  • Address selection supports deep linking for navigation with following apps
    • Apple Maps
    • Waze
    • Google Maps
  • Reviewer Images are dynamically fetched as they appear
    • Using an internal image cache based upon url to avoid duplicate network calls

Lessons Learned

• Stack Views are amazing for supporting dynamic content
• Image Cache greatly improves performance
• Deep Linking
• CollectionView support for dynamic height
• Fastlane
  • Provides amazing automated tools for taking screenshots across multiple devices
  • Uploads screenshots directly to iTunes
• iOS is super fun =D

Specifications

• Language: Objective-C
• Development Environment: Xcode 7.0 and above
• Target: iOS 9.0 and above
• Memory: Full ARC support
• Interface Builder: Storyboard

AppStore

• AppStore