Create an architecture.md file to support development.

Acceptance Criteria:

• Provide information about the current design pattern (MVC)
• References regarding the model, views and controllers
• API information
• JSON parsing

..etc

What is your idea/feature:
Currently, there is a very simple github.io page for SpaceDash. I want it to have a beautiful and informative Web Page.

Why this is beneficial:
This would expand the presence of SpaceDash and may lead to an increased number of downloads.

Solutions:
Create a Webpage that matches the theme from the iOS App.

Additional context
Before working on the webpage I would love to see some mockups of the webpage you are planning to build. Then only I will be able to Assign this issue to you. I am also planning to get an official domain for the app after this webpage is deployed.

Create a widget from the following mockup by @simplybenjamin. Widgetkit is iOS 14 framework. But I want our app to support both iOS 14 and 13 so you will also need to work on that.

Address typos and grammatical errors within the supporting documents:

• README.md
• Contributing.md
• Code of conduct

Acceptance criteria:

• Address typos
• Modify grammatical errors
• Remove blank space
• Ensure consistent formating

The mockups for the UI has been designed by @Shubham0812. It is available at this link. Create the UI in code. You can use a combination of Storyboard and Programmatical UI, Although keep in mind that there are already custom classes for various UI elements prefer to use it over creating your own.

Update about the app

Add a badge for SpaceDash Twitter and link to the testflight link in the readme.

The text colour in dark mode changes to white which is not legible.

Update the Description for this app. The current description is present in this file edit the same file with the updated description.

What is your idea/feature:
Add a Watch Now button for Upcoming Launch

Why this is beneficial:
A watch now button will help to direct our users to the live stream of the upcoming launch. This will make our app more intuitive.

Solutions:
The SpaceX API in most cases returns a Youtube link for most of the upcoming launch. When the link is available there should be a green clickable button for watch now else it should be a greyish non-clickable button.

Additional context
Before making the requested changes in code make a mockup and comment it down below. After it is approved by me only then start with code.

The network manager holds a strong reference to its delegates. so the class assigned as a delegate to network manager is never released due to strong memory reference. I'm attaching profiler screenshots supporting for my issue.

I opened the DetailsViewController 3 times while profiling, you can see 3 persistent and 0 transient objects. this means the DetailViewController is never released.

This screenshot is from memory Graph debugger indicating the leaked objects

Currently, the app has one massive storyboard namely Main.Storyboard. Divide it into multiple storyboards containing one or two relevant ViewControllers to a topic like Detail Viewcontroller can have their own storyboard. This will help us reduce those pesky Merge Conflicts as the project progresses.

Create an NSCache that will store the data sent by API for specific queries which is being used frequently and/or updated rarely. This will decrease the loading times for our app while giving us the ability to easily query the DB for possibly filters and stuff.

just leave the < is more clean the navigation

Update the launch screen such that it follows Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for launch screen. Currently, the launch screen just contains the app logo which adds a bit of unnecessary visual interruption.

Integrate Spaceflight News API so that our app can have a feed of the latest news and blogs about spaceflight. We could also integrate a WKWebview for opening links. Also, add support for UIRefreshControl I think that would really add to the user experience.

Add shadow to rocket on the home screen like the one present on the second screenshot.

What is your idea/feature:
Design a different iPad optimized UI.

Why this is beneficial:
Currently, there is a common UI for all iOS devices which doesn't use all the extra space in any beneficial way. Creating a special iPad UI will mean that there will be more capable in the iPad App.

Solutions:
Design a UI Mockup for iPad.

Acceptance criteria:
-UI Mockups (screenshots)

Additional context
Make sure the proposed UI follows Apple's Human Interface Guideline.

What is your idea/feature:
Give the user to customize their app icons.

Why this is beneficial:
This will give users to customize how they want to see their Dashboard 😉 I am providing some App Icon that users can choose from. You can drop in your recommendation too. Create an option in the About Section (Which will be changed to preference after this is implemented.) where users have the option to customize their app icon.

These are not full-sized app icons. When you start with this issue, I will provide you with a link with full-sized app icons.

I have created a twitter page for SpaceDash. Although currently there are no tweets from SpaceDash, I plan to start tweeting soon. The banner should be something related to the app. You can provide Banner in the comments below and if the community likes it, you can add it into the screenshots folder and create a pr.

Update README to have the latest Screenshots. And Change the name of the Screenshots folder to Assets. If you do not have access to an iOS Device, do let me know I will send you fresh new Screenshots.

Currently, the app shows only data from SpaceX. We are planning to move to the next phase of development soon, which is integrating more Space Agencies. For that, I believe we need to perform a complete redesign of the app.

A couple of things to consider:

• The design should be capable of being implemented in both Light and Dark Mode
• The feel of the app should largely be the same
• It would be awesome if we could keep the upcoming launch panel, as personally I like it a lot, and is a major feature that differentiates our app.

Acceptance criteria:

• Design mockups in light and dark mode.
• Should follow Apple's HIG

I am attaching some UI Mockups, which should be opened when someone taps on the rocket on the home page. There should be a little animation that will extend the white part and everything should dissolve in.

The second screen should open when someone taps on the read more button.

The first order of business is to create the UI, animation can be configured later. Use dummy data for now, we will integrate it with API afterward.

PS: I am not the best designer, if you have some ideas to better the UI or animation, let us discuss in the comments.

As we have plans to integrate more Space Agencies, we would be needing a lot more APIs. Create a new file under the Assets folder (currently named screenshots) if it is not already present there. The file should be using the following format.

When the launch is tentative, there will be a little green sign next to the launch date. But it doesn't tell much to the user what it is. I was wishing there could be a little pop-up when we either tap on it which could tell the user what the little T sign is.
I am attaching the screenshot with the Tentative sign.

You can toggle this sign by enabling it in HomeViewController.