GHFollower

Description

GHFollowers is an iOS app that allows a user to search for github users, and browse their followers.

Additional Work

• Introduced the MVVM-C architecture, Combine for view-viewModel bindings
• Utilized the async events and functions with async/await concurrency and
• Refactored the original layer to the generic one
• Implemented image caching for SwiftUI View

Technical Details

• Programmatic UI, No storyboard used, UIKit based, with a SwiftUI View FollowerView
• MVVM-C architecture is used
  • Combine framework is used for binding between view and viewModel
  • Coordinators are for the navigation between scenes
• Error Handling
  • GFError enum is used for representing difference errors in the app
• Generic NetworkManager
  • Endpoint enum is used for configure the host, path, methodType and queryItems for each API endpoint (getFollower, getUserInfo)
• Image Caching with NSCache for remote image
• Using local persistence UserDefault to store the users to favorites
• Custom Views (GFTitleLabel, GFTextField, GFButton...)
• Using delegates and protocol

Features

• Searching for user
• Listing followers for an user
• Filtering followers with text
• Showing the user information of an user
• Opening an Github Profile URL in app
• Showing favorited users
• Adding users to favorites
• Dark mode supported

Requirements

• iOS 17.0+
• XCode 15.2+

Acknowledgments

This is originally an example take-home project from Sean Allen's Take Home Project Course. Thanks.