Pokemon

Criteria

Use Swift, Xcode and the iOS Emulator
Search Pokemon list
Display the sprite of the Pokemon and the name on the list
Display a detail screen of a chosen Pokemon's statistics (does not need to be all of them)
Demonstrate use of version control
Data persistence is optional (i.e. CoreData)
The .git directory must be included in the solution
Third-party frameworks can be used
Third-party resources can be used, but should be referenced

Mark scheme

Technical ability (Code quality)
Presentation skills (Design)
Documentation (Sources and commenting)
Overall solution (User experience)

Installation

Download the Repo from the terminal or download from the download button above.

Once the folder has been downloaded to your machine, traverse to the folder and open Pokemon.xcodeproj in Xcode.

The solution uses Swift Package Manager. It is recommended that you reset the Cache through the menu File>Swift Packages>Reset Package Caches.

Testing

To run unit tests use ⌘U from within Xcode, or Product>Test.

Deployment target

The target for this project is iOS13.

iPhone is supported.

Self-Review

Code Quality

This solution uses MVVM-C, and showcases several SOLID principles.

Presentation skills

This solution uses a UITableView with loading indicator, before displaying the detail screen. Lazy loading of images.

Documentation

The vast majority of the code is considered to be self-documenting. I've used a number of frameworks, detailed in the references section below.

This architecture uses Combine to link the view model and view controller instances within the Application.

The architecture used within the application is described using the following diagram:

Overall solution

The solution is stable, does not crash and has been tested. The Pokemon are stored in Core Data, so the App is functional without an Internet connection (if there is no Internet connection on first boot, the user is informed).

I've decided to use a programmatic interface rather than storyboards in this specific instance.

References

This solution uses:

My network manager https://github.com/stevencurtis/NetworkManager
SDWebImage https://github.com/SDWebImage/SDWebImage

I have also used SwiftLint for the development of this project.

stevencurtis / Pokemon