Develop Reddit-like iPhone App

OVERVIEW: This project will develop an iPhone app for browsing news article. The app will have one Main View (image 1) and a slide out menu (image 2). The Main View contains a main toolbar and displays a subview that contains a list of link information. TOOLBAR: The Toolbar contains a title bar, search field, and menu bar. The title bar contains a top-left menu button (hamburger) that slides out the menu, a centered label for the App’s name, a centered label for the sub-title, and a share button that popups up a menu (image 3). When the user presses the search field, the onscreen keyboard should pop up and be able to dismiss/hide the keyboard. The app does not need to perform any searches at the [login to view URL] menu bar has 4 buttons (Home, History, Trending, and Favorites). Pressing each button will change the list subview, where each subview will be populated with a different list of link information. Pressing each menu bar button will also change the background of the buttons appropriately and update the subtitle on the title bar to indicate which subview is displayed. SLIDE-OUT MENU: The slide out menu will have a search field and list options with text names and icons. Similar to the search field on the toolbar, the keyboard should be displayed but no search actually should be supported at this time. The slide out menu will also have categories with elements, where if the category item is pressed, the “folder” toggles between collapse and expand (for example, the Account category in image 2 will hide/show Messages, submitted, comments, etc). The slide out menu should appear when the user presses the top left menu on the Main View. The menu should be dismissed if the user presses the menu button again or swipes the menu from right-to-left. MAIN LIST VIEW: To populate each list element, a Link object/struct will need to be created to store link information. The Link struct will contain a linkid, title, datetime, source, thumbnail image url, and an image storage variable (where the app downloads the image and stores it in this variable). Each subview will have its own array of links to populate the lists elements with, therefore, there will be an array for Home, an array for History, etc. For development, hardcode these arrays with manually created link objects because this app will not pull data from the internet but the images must be downloaded from the internet on app-startup. Each list will have pull down refresh and “infinite scrolling”. The pull down action refreshes the list by first displaying a spinner that indicates that the page is refreshing, clears the current subview’s list, repopulates it with elements from its appropriate array, and hides the refreshing spinner. Infinite scrolling appends 5 more links to the current’s displayed list by displaying a spinner while it finds more links to append, adds the new elements to the list, and then hides the spinner. Besides downloading link images, the app will not need to connect to the internet. All of the app’s components should scale and arrange appropriately in size based on the device it is running on (iPhone 5 – iPhone6 plus). All work will be done in 3 milestones, where each milestone will deliver updated Swift and project files. Updates with files and status are to be given every 3 days of development. Compensation will only be released upon completion and satisfaction of each milestone. Milestone 1: Toolbar and Slideout Menu Milestone 2: Main List View Milestone 3: Refinement – cleaning up and small placement changes.