Flash Pops is a Game written in Swift for macOS platforms. The Game is quite simple, your task is to guess the name of a specific movie when you are listening to a remarkable song about that movie (or tv show). For each right answer, you earn 1 point and your total score will increase by 1. If your answer is wrong, you'll not lose any point! Achieving a specific number of points, you'll be able to play the next level (more challenges will come).
About technical decisions
Programming Language: 100% Swift. For macOS platforms, you need to choose between Swift and Objective-C. So, I decided to use Swift because is more modern, and Apple recommends it.
Frameworks: SwiftUI. SwiftUI is a new Apple framework to help you build complex interfaces across all Apple platforms. SwiftUI uses a declarative syntax and maintains a great principle, The Single Source of Truth. This behavior helps you to keep updated with your data and your UI across all parts of your app.
Structural Design Pattern: MVVM (Model-View-View-Model). A pretty common design pattern for mobile development.
Developer Tools and IDE: Xcode (recommended).
Initial flows
The app has 2 initial flows. The first flow occurs when the user never played before. In this case, the data is loaded from a JSON file. The second flow occurs when the user made 1 point at least. In this case, the data will be loaded from UserDefaults, a simple key-value pair database. For each new point, the app database (UserDefaults) will be updated.
Project Folders
Source: Contains all the source code files
Resources: Contains all the resources such as images, JSON, and the about text.
Components: All the reusable views come here, like CardView.
Screens: All the screens come here, like DetailScreen
Model: The game logic model.
Store: The game source of truth
Utilities: Network requests, database connection, and image cache service.
Project Files
Store: Controls the game flow. Decides if data will be loaded from JSON or database. Provides the data through the app publishing every change. Conforms to ObservableObject protocol.
Networker: Creates a request and fetches the data from the URL.
Localizable: The app supports English and Portuguese, so Localizable manages which file will be loaded according to the user's language. Loads English by default.
Views: Every View file behaves like a View protocol. Each view is a piece of screen UI, like a LEGO block.
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