Flixster shows the latest movies currently playing in theaters. The app utilizes the Movie Database API to display images and basic information about these movies to the user.
Time spent: 12 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can scroll through current movies from the Movie Database API
The following optional features are implemented:
- For each movie displayed, user can see the following details:
- Title, Poster Image, Overview (Portrait mode)
- Title, Backdrop Image, Overview (Landscape mode)
- Layout is optimized with the ViewHolder pattern.
- Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading.
- Allow user to view details of the movie including ratings and popularity within a separate activity or dialog fragment.
- Improved the user interface by experimenting with styling and coloring.
- Apply rounded corners for the poster or background images using Picasso transformations
- Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce boilerplate code.
- Allow video trailers to be played in full-screen using the YouTubePlayerView from the details screen.
The following additional features are implemented:
- Text is written above the rating bar and states the exact rating for each movie (similar action with popularity at the bottom).
- The poster path of the movie is faded in the background of the movie info activity.
- (Not sure if additional feature) the Android logo placed right next to the name of the app at the top.
- List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!
- Implement YouTube videos
- Optimize the layout with ViewHolder
- Apply the Butterknife annotation library
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
Link: https://imgur.com/DakMNd5
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Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
- Working with the adapter was the toughest part because it was the hardest concept for me to understand. It was difficult to understand what it did.
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android
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