GitHub Search API with UIKit & Firebase Authentication

🔍 GitHub Search API project built with Swift 5 that demonstrates how to implement the GitHub search functionality in an iOS app using UIKit. The app integrates Firebase Authentication for user login and registration and follows a clean architecture approach using MVVM, Builder Pattern, and Coordinator patterns.

🚀 Project Overview

This project allows users to search GitHub repositories using the GitHub Search API. The app demonstrates how to handle user authentication via Firebase and display search results in a clean, modular architecture. The architecture follows the MVVM pattern for separating concerns, the Builder Pattern for clean configuration of objects, and the Coordinator pattern for handling navigation flow.

🛠 Technologies Used

• Swift 5
• UIKit
• Firebase Authentication
• MVVM Architecture
• Builder Pattern
• Coordinator Pattern
• GitHub Search API

🔑 Features

• GitHub Repository Search: Search GitHub repositories by name, description, or other keywords.
• Firebase Authentication: Sign up, login, and manage user authentication using Firebase.
• MVVM Architecture: Clean separation between UI, business logic, and data.
• Builder Pattern: Easily construct and manage the configuration of various authentication and API requests.
• Coordinator Pattern: Manages navigation and ensures that view controllers are decoupled from each other.

🧩 Architecture Overview

MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel)

• Model: The data layer, responsible for communicating with the GitHub API and Firebase.
• View: The UI layer, responsible for displaying data and handling user interaction.
• ViewModel: Acts as a middle layer between the Model and View, handling logic and preparing data for the View.

Builder Pattern

• Used to simplify and modularize the construction of complex objects, such as API requests and user authentication.

Coordinator Pattern

• Ensures the app's navigation flow is cleanly separated from the ViewControllers, improving scalability and modularity.

💡 Future Improvements

• Error Handling: Add detailed error handling for Firebase and GitHub API responses.
• Search Filters: Introduce search filters for more refined results.
• User Profile: Display the authenticated user's profile once logged in.

📱 Screenshots

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🏆 Created by Krzysztof Lema | GitHub | LinkedIn