bmberger / flickster

A movie description viewer

Project 2 - Flickster

Flickster 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: 27 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

• User can scroll through current movies from the Movie Database API

The following stretch 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
• Improved the user interface by experimenting with styling and coloring. (e.g. changed icon logo)
• Allow user to view details of the movie including ratings and popularity within a separate activity
• Apply rounded corners for the poster or background images using Glide transformations

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

• My main struggle was just getting the layouts set up. Despite following the instruction to almost a T, it was still getting errors so it gave me limited time to work on other features. Beyond that, I had a really bad migrane while coding the other day and could barely see my screen due to blurred vision. But, other than that, I perserved and was able to implement additional features.
• I never had experience with calling APIs and utilizing networking, so it was an amazing learning experience and I'm glad that I learned a lot.

Open-source libraries used

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android

License

Copyright [2019] [Briana Berger]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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