abdulbasit18 / flickrsearch

Flickr Image Searching app using RxSwift, MVVM-C

FlickrSearch

Prereqs

• Xcode 11.5
• iOS 13+

Features

App is consist of two screen and has below featues

1. Searching : Search images through tags.
2. Infite Srolling : Get the new search results by scrolling.
3. Caching : You can search images from local database in case of internet unavailibilty.
4. Full Screen View : You can tap on image to view the image in big size

Overall Architecture

App is based on MVVM-C architecture. Structure is broken down by the general purpose of contained source files. Below are the dependencies used in the project

1. RxSwift : Used to bind the flow between layers
2. SDWebImage : Used for networking.
3. NVActivityIndicatorView : Used to show loading states.
4. SwiftLint : A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions, loosely based on GitHub's Swift Style Guide.

Flickr API Documentation

Images are retrieved by hitting the Flickr API.

• Search Path:

https://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=YOUR_FLICKR_API_KEY&format=json&nojsoncallback=1&safe_search=1&text=KEYWORD

• Response includes an array of photo objects, each represented as:

{
    "id": "23451156376",
    "owner": "28017113@N08",
    "secret": "8983a8ebc7",
    "server": "578",
    "farm": 1,
    "title": "Merry Christmas!",
    "ispublic": 1,
    "isfriend": 0,
    "isfamily": 0
}

To load the photo, you can build the full URL following this pattern:

http://farm{farm}.static.flickr.com/{server}/{id}_{secret}.jpg

Thus, using our Flickr photo model example above, the full URL would be:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/578/23451156376_8983a8ebc7.jpg