SwiftUI + License for JSON?

[Meorge]

Hi,

For a project I'm working on, I need a SwiftUI timezone picker and was considering adapting your code/JSON database file to SwiftUI. I haven't seen anything that states the JSON came from another source, so I'm assuming that the answer to this is 'yes', but just in case I wanted to confirm that the CitiesAndTimeZones.json file is licensed under Apache 2.0 with the rest of the code?

Thanks,
Malcolm

[gligorkot]

Hey man, sure thing! If you like you could do it over the top of this library and raise a PR, then I can update the version to 2.0 and mark iOS support up to 13.0 for that version and up.

Would be good to have this in SwiftUI, I wasn't very good at coding the UI when I did this lib so would be great to improve it.

The json file is an extract from iOS or MacOS. I remember finding a way to extract that and getting the file that way, so I believe if it's public like that you should be free to use it.

[Meorge]

Ok great, thanks! It may take a few days but I'll try to work on a SwiftUI implementation and see if I can do it as a fork/PR!

[Meorge]

I was able to spend some time today working on it. So far, I've got a view with a label meant to display the currently selected time zone, and a button you can click to open a "search for city" view. Here, you can search for the city you want, and a list of matches shows up below. I haven't yet figured out how to get selection to work, but hopefully that'll come soon.

Here's a GIF of what I've got so far running in my macOS app. (The TimeZonePicker top-level view is where it says "None" with the "Select..." button next to it.) Before I do the PR, I'm hoping to confirm that it works on iOS as well.

[tomsun3]

@gligorkot
Hi! Thanks for the project! Are you sure we can use the JSON file in our app?

[gligorkot]

Hey @thomasmo3, I can't say for sure, but I've released an app with this in it and it has been accepted on the App Store, so I can't see why it would be an issue for others.

[tomsun3]

Thank you! The JSON file is very useful.