Chapter 11: Sports News App – Data
In this book, we have yet to really work with feed data. In Chapter 5, Car Order Form – Data, we did some form posting that returned a small JSON response. In this chapter, we are going to work with feeds on a much larger scale. Working with feeds is unreliable, especially when writing a book, so we will be using a macOS app called Mockoon. Mockoon allows us to run mock APIs locally. Once we have everything set up in Mockoon, we will be able to work as if we were getting data from actual feeds. We'll get started with Mockoon first before we add any code.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Learning how to use API structures using Combine
- Learning more about JSON and Decodable
- Learning how to load and play videos in a video player
Before we can get started with working on feeds, we need to understand how to get and use Mockoon. Let's do that now.