Beginning iOS Programming Episode 6 - How to Make a Cat Button App

In this episode you'll learn how to make a cat button app. One button, one image, infinite cats.

This project will teach you a number of crucial topics including:

  • interacting with web-services
  • working with images
  • downloading things
  • using a background thread
  • updating the UI on the main thread
  • responding to user actions
  • using activity indicators and much more!

You will need XCode 9 for this tutorial. We will be working in Swift 4 and targeting iOS 11. The code for this and all episodes can be found here on github: https://github.com/orgs/brightmediums

In the next episode we will learn how to interact with a basic web service while making a cat button app. Stay tuned and feel free to follow us on Twitter for updates: @brightmediums.