Project is successfully hitting the weather API and returning the response to the screen after the async method finishes. Yay!!

lib/main.dart

@@ -1,20 +1,87 @@
+// Local
+import 'package:com_hyperling_buddy_website/secrets.dart';
+
+// Flutter / Dart
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;
+import 'dart:convert';
 
 void main() {
   runApp(const MainApp());
 }
 
-class MainApp extends StatelessWidget {
+final String loadText = "Loading...";
+
+class MainApp extends StatefulWidget {
   const MainApp({super.key});
 
+  @override
+  State<MainApp> createState() => _MainAppState();
+}
+
+class _MainAppState extends State<MainApp> {
+  String weather = loadText;
+  bool keepLoading = false;
+
+  @override
+  void initState() {
+    super.initState();
+    _callOpenWeather();
+  }
+
+  @override
+  void dispose() {
+    weather = loadText;
+    super.dispose();
+  }
+
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    return const MaterialApp(
+    if (weather == loadText) {
+      Future.delayed(Duration(seconds: 1), () {
+        setState(() {
+          keepLoading = true;
+        });
+      });
+    }
+
+    return MaterialApp(
       home: Scaffold(
         body: Center(
-          child: Text('Hello World!'),
+          child: Column(children: [Text('Hello World!'), Text(weather)]),
         ),
       ),
     );
   }
+
+  // How to guide:
+  //   https://openweathermap.org/current#zip
+  Future<String> _hitOpenWeather(String zipCode, String? countryCode) async {
+    countryCode ??= "US";
+
+    http.Response response = await http.get(
+      Uri.parse(
+        'https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast'
+        '?zip=$zipCode,$countryCode'
+        '&units=imperial'
+        '&appid=$openWeatherKey',
+      ),
+    );
+
+    String data = "";
+    if (response.statusCode == 200) {
+      data = response.body;
+      var decodedData = jsonDecode(data);
+      print(decodedData);
+      data = decodedData.toString();
+    } else {
+      print(response.statusCode);
+    }
+
+    return data;
+  }
+
+  _callOpenWeather() async {
+    weather = await _hitOpenWeather("47630", "US");
+  }
 }

pubspec.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: com_hyperling_buddy_website
-description: "A new Flutter project."
+description: "Buddy, a weather-focused API frontend."
 publish_to: 'none'
 version: 0.1.0
 
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ environment:
 dependencies:
   flutter:
     sdk: flutter
+  http: ^1.3.0
 
 dev_dependencies:
   flutter_test: