Seven Mobile Apps in Seven Weeks

Day 2: What’s It Like There?

Or, Loading the Current Weather at a Location

Currently our app is loading weather forecasts, but the location is hard-coded. Today we’ll make the app usable by finding the device’s current location and then later allowing the user to enter a location—in both cases reverse-geocoding, or finding the real-world place name of that location, and using that name to load the weather.

Creating a Better Organization

First, instead of keeping all the code in the view controller, let’s get a better architecture in place. Then, as we add code to deal with location, we can do it in a clean and organized way. We’ll start with a data model class that will be responsible for loading and retaining weather data.

Creating a Data Model ...