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var mediaJSON = { "categories" : [ { "name" : "Movies",
        "videos" : [ 
		    { "description" : "Big Buck Bunny tells the story of a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps... and the rabbit ain't no bunny anymore! In the typical cartoon tradition he prepares the nasty rodents a comical revenge.\n\nLicensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license\nhttp://www.bigbuckbunny.org",
              "sources" : [ "http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4" ],
              "subtitle" : "By Blender Foundation",
              "thumb" : "images/BigBuckBunny.jpg",
              "title" : "Big Buck Bunny"
            },
            { "description" : "The first Blender Open Movie from 2006",
              "sources" : [ "http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ElephantsDream.mp4" ],

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// Date extension
extension Date {
  static func getStringFromDate(date: Date) -> String {
    let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEEE, MMM d, yyyy"
    let dateString = dateFormatter.string(from: date)
    return dateString
  }
  static func getDateFromString(dateString: String) -> Date? {
    let formatter = ISO8601DateFormatter()

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App Store Submission

1. Key Terminologies

• Xcode build
• Archive
• Provisioning Profile: Developer, Distribution
• TestFlight
• Privacy Policy
• App Id

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Networking in iOS (Terminology)

1. JSON - web api formatted data the is the most popular way of serving downloaded or uploaded content from a network resource

   {
     "language": "swift", 
     "releaseYear": 2014, 
     "url": "https://developer.apple.com/swift/images/swift-og.png"
   }

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extension Bundle {
  enum BundleError: Error {
    case noResource(String)
    case noContents(String)
    case decodingError(Error)
  }
  
  func parseJSONData<T: Decodable>(_ name: String, ext: String = "json") throws -> T {
    guard let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: name, ofType: ext) else {
      throw BundleError.noResource(name)

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Delegates: You use delegates to interact with Cocoa objects that inform you of events in an app.
Apple docs - delegation

// Object A
class ViewController: UIViewController {
  override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
  }

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import UIKit

final class DetailView: UIView {
  
  // setting up a scroll view
  // 1. add scrollview
  // 2. add content view
  // 3. add subviews to content view
  // Note: must set high priority of content view to low, default is 1000
  

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Accessing manually uploaded media from Firebase Storage.

Prerequisites

• Firebase pods are installed
• Firebase Storage is configured on your Firebase console.
• Media has been uploaded to Firebase Storage.
• You have already downloaded the Google-Info.plist file and added it to Xcode.
• Firebase has been configured in the AppDelegate.
• Firebase Authentication is configured or Firebase Storage read access is set to public i.e read: true;

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DSA Whiteboarding Rubric

 
// Summary of steps
/*
0. understand the prompt (question)
1. clarifying questions (ask at least 2 clarification questions)
2. pseudo code 
3. test your pseudo code 
4. ask the interviewer if you can start coding after testing your pseudocode

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// Making sections for a 2D array to be used in a CollectionView or TableView. [Fellow] => [[Fellow]]

import Foundation

struct Fellow {
  let name: String
  let cohort: String
  
  static func allFellows() -> [Fellow] {
    return [