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Swift By Example

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785284700
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Giordano Scalzo Giordano Scalzo
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Implementing the UI


A UI that is not as complicated as the one required can be really difficult to implement if we don't take the correct precautions.

A good way to minimize the complexity is to split the problem into more manageable subproblems, so we'll define three subviews: currentWeather, hourlyForecast, and dailyForecast. We'll implement them as separate entities. The following screenshot shows the view's structure:

The UI in blocks

As just said, we implement the UI by creating three custom views, whose size and position we are temporarily hardcoding.

Let's start with CurrentWeatherView, adding it to PrettyWeatherViewController:

    private let scrollView = UIScrollView()
    private let currentWeatherView = CurrentWeatherView(frame: CGRectZero)

As the height of the three elements is more than the height of the view, we create a scroll view to contain them:

    func setup(){
        //...
        scrollView.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = false
        scrollView.addSubview(currentWeatherView...
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