QParenting

QParenting is an iOS app that hopes to provide parents/guardians with knowledge and tools on how to support or better support their LGBTQ+ children. Parents will have access to articles pertaining to sexuality/gender as well as general information on supporting your child after they've come out.

Features

Users are able to find specific articles by using tags

Users are also able to search for articles by titles

Users can read articles and save articles to a collection

Users can unsave articles from their saved articles collection

Code Snippets

Search function that works based off either text or a tag.

    func search(searchText text: String?,searchTag tag: String?) {
        var articles = [SiteInfo]()
        
        
        if let searchText = text {
            guard !searchText.isEmpty else { return }
            articles = resources.filter { $0.name.lowercased().contains(searchText)}
        } else if let tag = tag {
            if tag == "All" { articles = fetchResources() }
            else {
                articles = Array(Set(resources.filter { $0.tags.contains(tag) }))
            }
        } else {
            articles = fetchResources()
        }

Technologies

This project uses a custom JSON API: https://github.com/maitreebain/QParenting/blob/master/QParenting/QParenting/Resource%20Files/Links.json

This project uses a DataPersistence dependency to save user data to their local device. This project uses DiffableDataSource to create customized UICollectionViews, and uses UISearchControllers to produce a consistent and smooth UI.

DataPersistence dependency: https://github.com/alexpaul/DataPersistence