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iOS Build a Weather App with Swift Adding Weather Icons Displaying Icons

Posted by Donny Gumelar France
Donny Gumelar France
Courses Plus Student 1,148 Points

where i can find specific weather forecast for any country ? like indonesia , jakarta ? like dark sky maybe ?

i want to make weather app , but on the example is albatross , california . how to change it to any country or place . thx for helping

1 Answer

Greg Kaleka
Greg Kaleka
39,021 Points
Greg Kaleka
Greg Kaleka
39,021 Points

Hi Donny!

Right now, you're just learning how to set up the look of your app. In future lessons, Pasan will be teaching you how to actually get live weather data through the forecast.io API. You can use the same API to get forecasts for most locations on the globe - you'll just change the API url to reflect the latitude and longitude of the location you're interested in! You can check out the forecast.io docs for more info - you'll learn more about how to use the API in the coming lessons as well. Note, this is the exact API that Dark Sky uses :)

https://developer.forecast.io/docs/v2

Donny Gumelar France
Donny Gumelar France
Courses Plus Student 1,148 Points

thx , is that possible to make this app can show specific area ? just by input a name of the place ?

Greg Kaleka
Greg Kaleka
39,021 Points
Greg Kaleka
Greg Kaleka
39,021 Points

What you'll eventually be doing is making a network call to the forecast.io api. You'll use specific data in the url you hit to get the information you want.

The basic url looks like this:

https://api.forecast.io/forecast/APIKEY/LATITUDE,LONGITUDE

You'll need to register to get an API key to input in your url, and then you would just add in the latitude and longitude for the location you're interested in.

Jakarta would be:

https://api.forecast.io/forecast/APIKEY/6.1745,106.8227

Again, you'll need your own API key.