This project started due to my love of Apple products and wanting to be able to say I published an app on the Apple App Store. The demo link above goes to the Apple Store page where you can download the app for free.

What’s the stack?

This project is written in Swift/SwiftUI. I used Xcode as my IDE but also leveraged Xcode Cloud to run my builds for production and TestFlight. For the weather data I decided to use the slightly still new at the time Apple WeatherKit. While the calls are limited in the “free” tier thats included in the Apple Developer subscription, I thought it would be an easy implementation while providing some insight on how often the app was being used.

Why weather?

When I started the project, Apple’s weather app was busy but yet still somehow didn’t show all the info I would want at a glance. I set out to make a cleaner and more info dense weather app. Before I released, Apple did make some major changes to their app resulting in some of the effort feeling pointless, since Apple’s app now was what I wanted.

Future Plans

While I do still occasionally work on this project, I no longer have the same motivation or reason to continue its development. More than likely, I will make the code base public and turn it into an open source weather app for iOS.