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Fetching, sorting, and showing a JSON list (live coding)

This is a senior iOS virtual onsite, live coding. You have to build, without searching, an app that fetches a list of content from a public JSON API, parses it, and shows it sorted by title or by date. With the sort requirement, what do you have to pay special attention to about the sort key's type and string comparison?

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Decode dates as Date, not String (dateDecodingStrategy), and compare those; compare titles with localizedStandardCompare so case, numbers, and locale are handled.

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