{"id":183,"date":"2017-07-05T02:38:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T02:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/?p=183"},"modified":"2017-07-05T04:19:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T04:19:35","slug":"ios-persistence-and-core-data-virtualtourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"iOS Persistence and Core Data: VirtualTourist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;VirtualTourist&#8221; is supposed to be the app we create at the conclusion of this course. Like &#8220;On the Map&#8221;, it only gets the briefest of mentions during the course and none of the necessary resources are obviously available. There is an app from Udacity available in Apple&#8217;s App Store: &#8220;Virtual Tourist Portfolio App for iOS&#8221;. Unfortunately, and this does not bode well, the app appears to be relatively non-functional. It solitary usefulness in this course is in its description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This app allows you to virtually tour any place on the planet! Simply drop a pin anywhere on the map, and instantly browse nearby Flickr photos. It&#8217;s like you&#8217;re there already&#8230;or something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you are still working on the earlier courses in the nanodegree, example &#8220;Pitch Perfect&#8221; and &#8220;On the Map&#8221; apps from Udacity are also available. They appear to be in working order.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update!<\/strong> The &#8220;Virtual Tourist Portfolio App for iOS&#8221; actually works! You just need to use a long-press to drop a pin, and then you can tap that pin to see pictures from that area. Perhaps Udacity needs to add a course on\u00a0<\/em><i>onboarding?!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;VirtualTourist&#8221; is supposed to be the app we create at the conclusion of this course. Like &#8220;On the Map&#8221;, it only gets the briefest of mentions during the course and none of the necessary resources are obviously available. There is an app from Udacity available in Apple&#8217;s App Store: &#8220;Virtual Tourist Portfolio App for iOS&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ios-developer-nanodegree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}