Flicks Movies 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: 16 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)
- 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
- Improved the user interface by experimenting with styling and coloring.
- Apply rounded corners for the poster or background images using Glide 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.
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
GIF created with LiceCap.
Had a lot of trouble with ButterKnife and some issues using the APIs due to lack of understanding
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android
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