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"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest API." |
🍩 The Embiggens Project is a SwiftUI-based project that showcases The Simpsons API that runs on your iOS device.
It's a personal fan project built for fun and learning — exploring Springfield through characters, episodes, locations, and more served fresh in JSON form.
- Browse famous Simpsons characters, episodes and locations
- Search or filter through Springfield's characters, episodes, and locations
- Mark and revisit your favorite characters, episodes, and locations
- Explore API endpoints interactively
- Local disk caching implemented for offline viewing
- Built entirely with SwiftUI and modern async/await networking
- 100% fan-made, non-commercial project
- SwiftUI
- Async/Await for networking
- Codable for model decoding
- MVVM architecture
- GRDB - for SQLite database
- Self-made local disk caching
- The Simpsons API as the data source
- Clone the repository
- Open
Embiggens.xcodeprojin Xcode - Run the app on iOS 17+ simulator
All character data and quotes are provided by The Simpsons API.
This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by The Simpsons, 20th Television, or The Walt Disney Company.
All code written by Brian Simmons, unless otherwise notated, and released under the MIT License. Attribution is required.
This project uses data from The Simpsons Wiki under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC BY-SA).
The Simpsons API - RESTful API for The Simpsons universe
SwiftUI CachedAsyncImage - AsyncImage, but with cache capabilities
GRDB - A toolkit for SQLite databases
Stretchy Header (Natalia Panferova)
SwiftUI Popup (Sonya Hew)
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I created The Embiggens Project to explore API integration, caching, and SwiftUI architecture in a playful way.
It's both a learning exercise and a tribute to my favorite show.
Created by Brian Simmons
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