Integrating Plaid API on Front End? - ios

My buddy and I are learning coding and are integrating Plaid's API currently. We've built out most of UI view controllers for our onboarding and sign up pages but are a bit confused about how Plaid's API ties into this.
We know from using other apps that on the front end there's a page or two dedicated to connecting the user's bank account, do we need to design the UI for this or does the API include this?
Thanks a lot!
Casper

Plaid's API includes this, it's called Plaid Link. You can see what it looks like here: https://plaid.com/demo/

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Thanx for the suggestion. I did take a look at that before I posted this question. This is a project for a client and I dont think getting a plug in is a viable option. Anyways I found a work around.
Hosted the file on a server and then accessed it. So that resolved the problem. :)
I used node.js to write the script and get the posts as required.
Cheers.
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