DogBreeds

An iOS application to display various breeds of dogs from the DogAPI endpoint.

Dependency

• Mac OS Catalina 10.15.5
• Xcode 11.5
• git 2.24.3

Development

1. Clone the repo from the github using ssh or https. If you are using ssh make sure that you have added your ssh key to github.

• git clone git@github.com:abintom/dogbreeds.git

2. Open DogBreeds.xcodeproj using Xcode application.

Architecture

• MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel)

External libraries

• Nuke for Image download and caching.

Scope for Improvement

• Use SwiftGen to avoid boilerplate code for resouce management like localization and to make it type-safe
• Use SwiftLint and SwiftFormat for linting and formatting
• Implement pull to refresh to reload data
• Show alerts during errors or failures
• Add placeholder image for failed or loading images.

Assumptions

As there isn't any backend specs, the below assumptions are considered when developing the app.

• Dog breed type fetched from the backend would be always unique (even the name is same). There is no filtering done in the backend to remove duplicates
• Life span is always of the regex pattern \d+\s*(\p{Pd}\s*\d+)?\s*years? and the data which don't follow this pattern is ignored.
• The list is sorted by taking an average lifespan for the range.