Queries

This is a code assignment in Unity3D 👨🏻‍💻
The objective is to work with some concepts:

• JSON files (in Unity3d) 🤷🏻‍
• WebRequests (from a webAPI)
• Dinamic scrollable lists (in Unity UI)

Application flow

Youtube Teaser

The assignment

The task is to search programs from the Yle API

• The application should have an input field where the user can provide what programs to search for (a search query).
• The Finnish title of each result should be displayed in a scrollable list.
• When submitting a search, only the first 10 results should be retrieved from the API.
• When the user scrolls to the last few items in the list, the next 10 results should be appended to the list.
• Pressing on the row should display more details about the program. For this you can select any 5 revelant fields from the JSON.

Technologies to use

• Unity UI
• UnityWebRequest
• Any JSON library you prefer

Results

• I find that the Unity Json Utility has some limitations (e.g. we can't easily import an array of objects)
• I found (and use here) a port Json.Net.Unity3D of the famous Newtonsoft Json.NET library
• To build to iOS I have to tweak some things in XCode (more information in the Port github above)
• Essentialy it's a good practice to use Coroutines when doing webRequest so we have non-blocking requests
• Visual Studio has awesome tools to "rebuild" a Json Structure into an OOP-ish object