Lesson 15 - iOS Weather Forecast App - The UserDefaults storage
In the previous lesson, iOS Weather Forecast App - JSON and GPS, we made a weather app for iOS work, downloading data from a web service.
I promised to continue with saving data to the "new"
UserDefaults storage in case of the user being offline. We'll learn
to determine that as well.
Saving to UserDefaults
In iOS, UserDefaults is an easy way to store simple data types
and various data along with them. For this app, e.g. a database wouldn't be the
best choice.
Before getting started with UserDefaults, let's open
Main.storyboard and add one more Label at the top of
the StackView. We'll then connect it to the View Controller. You
can name it e.g. lastUpdateInfo. It'll let the user know when the
data was received.
It's better to drop the Label to the component list (instead of
dropping to the View Controller preview) by which we can easily place it at the
top of the StackView. Then we'll just set the font, color and erase
the text.
Key constants
Because UserDefaults use
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In this Swift tutorial, we'll save the weather data into the UserDefaults storage for case of no Internet connection. We'll learn to detect the connection.
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