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In this episode we have Caleb Kleveter show and tell us about his iOS app, Meterologist.
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Hi, I’m Craig,
welcome to the Treehouse Show.
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The Treehouse Show is a weekly
conversation with the Treehouse community.
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[SOUND] In this episode,
we’re gonna take a look
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at a student submitted
iOS weather app project.
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Caleb’s been working on an iOS app, an app
for Apple products like the iPhone or
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the iPad,
let’s let him talk about the project.
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>> Hello, my name is Caleb Corbider and
I've been a Treehouse student for
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about four years now,
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and the project that I've been working
on recently is called meteorologist.
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It is a iOS application built for getting
the weather in your current location.
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It allows you to sort of also pick
a new location that the weather
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will be fetched from forming a map and
first geolocation.
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>> That's cool, let's take a look
at the app here in an emulator.
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Nice, this looks great.
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I love how you can change the location
here when you need to dream about some
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place maybe a little bit warmer,
let's go ahead and do that actually.
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So I'm going to change the location,
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I want to go get out to Portland just for
a second and
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I want to head over to Mexico,
Yelapa, Mexico.
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Sounds delightful, and
I'm going to use selective location,
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look at right there on the water
82 degrees that is beautiful.
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So this looks wonderful, we asked Caleb
what kind of problems he ran into,
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were's what he said.
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>> The biggest issue that I've run
into creating this app is the UI,
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I am by far more a back end developer
than a front end developer.
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And one thing that helped a lot with
that is open source UI libraries
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that you can find on GitHub.
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>> I feel you on the back end
developer having UI struggles,
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I run into this all the time.
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I have a hard enough time
coloring in the lines,
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let alone lining up UI elements
that industry standards.
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This app looks great though, Caleb,
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I think you can consider yourself
a front end developer too.
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It's super responsive,
it's clean and crisp design.
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Now I love the fact that you
leaned on open source libraries.
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This really helps not only for coding
reasons but also for inspiration, I end up
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using examples from the open source UI
libraries to help really guide things.
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>> Just really thinking about it,
taking breaks as you get stuck on things.
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>> Also, I loved advice you gave of taking
breaks again, I can not stress this
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enough, most of the magic happens
when you are away from the keyboard.
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Remember, take breaks, they're super
important for your mental health and
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your project.
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We ask Caleb what advice he'd have for
students building a similar project.
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>> For students that are working with
similar projects, especially iOS apps,
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I highly recommend writing your UI in code
instead of using the interface builder.
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It gives you a lot of practice that
you wouldn't get otherwise, and
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it helps you really understand
what goes under the hood.
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It also gives you a lot
more customization.
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>> Great advice, now if you don't
know what an interface builder is,
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it's a tool that let's
you sort of drag and
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drop elements onto a screen
to help lay them out.
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What Caleb is suggesting, is not leaning
on it as a crutch in an effort to
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see what the interface builder
is actually saving you from.
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Now I've heard both approaches here,
I think as you're learning using a GUI or
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Graphical User Interface,
abstracts away what is really going on.
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Now if you want to learn the nuts and
bolts of app development,
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I too would recommend doing it by hand.
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One thing that I'd like to point
out is that Caleb actually extended
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a project from the Swift
course build a weather app.
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Now by extending, in other words
adding additional features and
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tweaks to an existing app,
you end up learning a lot.
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Now, please make sure that you do this and
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feel free to take the projects that
you build during your courses farther.
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This is an amazing way to here to learn
and very much like what you'll be doing in
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your development jobs,
adding features to existing applications.
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Thanks for sharing your code on GitHub
Caleb, I'm sure people will love to see
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how you did your magic also,
thanks for being on the show.
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We absolutely love seeing the amazing
things that you all are building, so
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keep them coming.
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Check the teacher's notes for
how to submit.
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[SOUND] Thanks for
watching the Treehouse Show.
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To get in touch with the show,
reach out to me on twitter or
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hit us up at show@teamtreehouse.com.
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I'm going to go back to dreaming
about that beach in Mexico.
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