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Hi, my name is Amit, an iOS developer and teacher.

In today's course, we'll look at one of the most powerful and

versatile views in iOS called Collection Views.

We'll take the Giphy or Giphy API to build a GIF viewer or GIF viewer.

Well, tomato, tomato, doesn't matter how you say it.

I'm sure you know about Giphy.

It's the website you use to search for those appropriate GIF reactions and

send them off to your family, friends or coworkers.

We'll use the API for this website to show the latest trending GIFs.

And as an exercise, you can enhance the app to search for GIFs using a keyword.

As you'll see in a minute when I demonstrate the app,

everything is quite seamless.

Live data, clean layouts, lots of nice interactivity and an intuitive flow.

So this is the app that we will be building throughout the course.

It's a GIF viewer that displays you all the trending GIFs within the Giphy API.

So we'll access the Giphy API to get us the list of all the trending GIFs, and

we'll display it in the Collection View.

And then when you click on a GIF,

it's going to go to the detailed view to show us the animated GIF.

And you can simply tap on it to make it disappear or you can click on it and

then swipe left to right to make it disappear.

So we'll look at gestures, animation,

Collection Views, data download, parsing JSON and so much more.

All right, I hope that little test drive whet your appetite.

Coming up, we get familiar with the multi-faceted yet

friendly beast that is the Collection View.