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8 years ago :+1: nice work on adding the collection view, tab bar, fading in the images, and creating a clean API!
The point of this homework was to explore a simple example of a full MVC application with a RESTful API. In general, you should continue to challenge yourself to create visually polished applications. That's where you'll find all the rough edges of the iOS framework and earn the next level of mastery.
One of the most important part of these projects is that you add additional features and tweak the UI / UX because that will provide many more learning opportunities. I would encourage you to complete the projects with required stories early and then spend time adding your own UI elements and experimenting with optional extensions that will improve the user experience.
We have provided a detailed Project 1 Feedback Guide here here which covers the most common points we see for this project, such as properly encapsulating class properties. In addition, be careful about which threads you use to update the UI vs threads used in asynchronous callbacks. UI updates should always occur on the main thread, while callbacks may occur on a background thread; take care to dispatch a tableView.reloadData() via the main thread rather than on a callback thread.
Read through the feedback guide point-by-point to determine other ways you could improve your submission. You should consider going back and implementing applicable feedback as well. Keep in mind that one of the most important parts of iOS development is learning the correct patterns and conventions.
@codepathreview Here's flicks