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: 14 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can scroll through current movies from the Movie Database API
- Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading
- For each movie displayed, user can see the following details:
- Title, Poster Image, Overview (Portrait mode)
- Title, Backdrop Image, Overview (Landscape mode)
- Allow user to view details of the movie including ratings within a separate activity
The following stretch features are implemented:
- 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 View Binding 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:
- Shows reviews, along with the user who made them, the date it was posted, their profile picture, and star rating (if applicable) below the movie details
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories in portrait and landscape mode respectively:
GIFs created with Giphy Capture.
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I attempted to add a "View More" and "Show Less" button to my additonal feature (reviews section) due to their length, but struggled and was unable to (likely will learn how in the future).
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Not necessarily a challenge with the app, but Kap does not function well on my computer (likely because it is a work laptop). The rest of the process went smoothly.
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Only made minor changes to UI -- added a seperator between items in recycler view (main activity) and made it so that the text and title would fit inside neatly.
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android
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