<b>Alamofire</b> is an extremely useful networking library for creating responsive applications on the iOS platform. In this lesson, we will go through the steps necessary to integrate Alamofire into our project through <b>Cocoapods</b>. Once we are ready to go with Alamofire, we can look at the iTunes API that allows us to search for anything from AppStore and iTunes Store. This API is fairly straightforward to work with and returns us nicely formatted JSON output. Let's make a network call with Alamofire so we can get a first glimpse at the return data.