Cursor AI and iOS App 2

Coding my second iOS application with Cursor AI…

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There are numerous videos on YouTube and articles here on Medium about how this setup works, so my article is not going to be a full tutorial. Instead, I will write about my experience and a few takeaways.

For my second iOS application I wanted to build using the Cursor AI IDE, I wanted to build a simple stock tracking bot. In my initial Composer prompt I gave it a few requirements. These bullet points are a little more concise for this article.

1. Use the Alpha Advantage API to fetch the stock price.
2. A field to provide a single stock ticker symbol.
3. A field to provide a starting price to compare the real-time price against.
4. A field to provide a desired percentage of change to compare against the calculated one in the application.
5. A switch to turn to active monitoring on and off.
6. Send the user a notification on the iOS device when the calculated percentage change is greater than the desired, whether up or down.
7. When the monitoring is enabled, in a background thread fetch the current stock price every 5 minutes.

When I made my list of requirements, I started by putting them in a text file. I had a few starting sentences to tell the…