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iOS Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   iOS Programming Cookbook Over 50 exciting and powerful recipes to help you unearth the promise of iOS programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460981
Length 520 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Swift Programming Language FREE CHAPTER 2. The Essentials 3. Integrating with Messages App 4. Working with Interface Builder 5. Working with UITableView 6. Animations and Graphics 7. Multimedia 8. Concurrency 9. Location Services 10. Security and Encryption 11. Networking 12. Persisting Data with Core Data 13. Notifications 14. App Search 15. Optimizing Performance

Parsing JSON data

In the previous demo, we saw how we can use URLSession to fetch data from an API in the form of a JSON response. In the demo, we printed the JSON response in the console. However, it doesn't work like that in real apps. In normal scenarios, we parse this JSON response and convert it to model objects, which are friendly enough and encapsulated so that they can be used directly in view controllers to update the UI or to do any logic. In this section, we will continue working on the same demo, but instead of printing out the JSON response in the console as we did earlier, we will parse and convert it to model objects and display them on the screen.

Getting ready

The API that we will use is from the randomuser...

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