What is this project?

This project is part of iOS assessment with the Trailhead Team of Salesforce

Get Started

This project was built using XCode 15.2

Start by creating a fork of the project.

Once you have completed the assessment, reply to the Hacker Rank forum with the link to the Github Project

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Open Weather API KEY

To get started with the open weather API, first go to Open Weather and generate an API key. Replace the openWeatherAPIKey variable in the file OpenWeatherAPIKey.swift with your API Key.

Instructions

First off, the places where work will need to be done will be marked with TODO (Please note that you have the freedom to use any implementation you would like or use the provided Address service).

Build onto this app that allows a user either preselect a list of given addresses or user to enter their own address. Convert the address into a CLLocation Object via one of the functions in the AddressService. You can create another function if you like if there is a different framework you would like to use to handle events.

Then take the result and retrieve and display the current weather and 5-day forecast from OpenWeather.

Here are the requirements:

• Provide a search entry text box or a list of pre-defined locations
• Each current weather result should show:
  • Current Location
  • Weather description
  • Temperature
  • Wind direction and speed
  • Rain if there's any
• Notify the user if the address isn't found or the weather wasn't available for that location (error handling)
• Each forecast item should show:
  • Date
  • Weather description
  • Temperature
  • Wind direction and speed
  • Rain if there's any

Mobile App

The App Should include the following

• All code is written in Swift. UI can be UIKit or SwiftUI
  • There are placeholders within the app to write the views and its associated layers in SwiftUI (SwiftUIView.swift) or UIKit (UIKitController.swift)
• Handle error conditions from API
• Unit tests should be included. We’d love to see how you think about testing features and separating code to do so.

Summary

To summarize:

• Create a service that calls the open weather API (API endpoint and the models are already provided).
• A basic SwiftUI or UIKit view to display the data (not both).
• An implementation of separation of concerns (ex. a ViewModel) so that data loading isn’t happening in a view controller.
• Unit tests for the different scenarios (ex. data loaded, error).

End Result Example

The end product could look something like this:

OR this: