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iOS Network Programming with Swift 2 Fetching Data From the Web Constructing a URL

Posted by Tosin Peters
Tosin Peters
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Guarding our API Keys

If we post our projects on gitHub and our code contains the API key, does this not give room to someone else stealing it?

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joseph leporati
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joseph leporati
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This is a common obstacle we have to overcome with Git - and luckily there is a built way we can do this with Github.

You should store these API values in a config file - fetch these when you need to use them throughout your app from this config file. You can then add a .gitignore file to the root directory of your project. Inside .gitignore add the following code:

config.swift //Specific file name
config.txt //Specific file name
api.config //Specific file name

*.cfg  // Wildcard for all files ending with .cfg
*.config // Wildcard for all files ending with .config

To learn more about .gitignore check out this link: CLICK HERE.

Hope that helps!