WANT - WAtson News Translator

WANT is a demo solution to translate news from English to Portuguese using IBM Watson Translation.

Walkthrough

1. Run the app;
2. Select an article;
3. read the original article;
4. select translated and voilà!;
5. select original to go back to original text.

Simple as that! Do you not believe? See bellow!

iOS App

• It was written in Objective C;
• It uses MVVM as a software architectural pattern;
• It uses AutoLayout for a responsive user interface;
• Unit Tests;
• UI Tests;.

Dependencies (cocoapods)

• Mantle;
• SVProgressHUD;
• VCRURLConnection.

Support

The app was developed and tested with:

• XCode 7.1.1 and XCode 7.2.1;
• iOS 9 Simulator;
• OS X El Capitan 10.11.1;
• CocoaPods 0.39.0.

Backend

The iOS app connects to backend application that was built with Node.js and is hosted on Bluemix and rely on:

• Watson Translation services for translation;
• Cloudant NoSQL DB services for caching;
• The Guardian APIs for news content.

Dependencies

• Express;
• Body Parser;
• HTML to text;
• Request;

You can take a look at server code here.

Architecture Diagram

Dev Settings

Do you WANT to run with stubs?

In AppSetup.m change

[self useStubs:NO];

to

[self useStubs:YES];

TODO

• Improve HTML to plain text parser;
• Support to other languages;
• Local caching.