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SwiftUI News Reader

Build a SwiftUI news app with async networking, image caching, and offline support. The canonical iOS portfolio starter.

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About this project

News readers are the hello-world of iOS app development. This project teaches SwiftUI views, async/await for networking, image caching, list virtualization, and pull-to-refresh. Use the NewsAPI or Hacker News API. Persist articles locally so the app works offline.

Why build this in 2026?

SwiftUI is the dominant iOS UI framework in 2026 — UIKit is maintenance-only. This project gets the fundamentals.

What you'll ship

  • GitHub repo
Screenshots of the running app on iPhone
Optional: TestFlight build

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