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Watchlist

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Project Description

Watchlist is a movie and tv series database for getting the latest information about trending or specific movies. Add a movie or tv series to your favourite to reference it later

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Screenshots

OnBoarding

Log In & Sign Up

Trending, Search, and Favourites

Movie and Series Details

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Technologies Used

• Jetpack Compose
• TMDB API
• Retrofit
• Firebase
• Dagger-Hilt
• Material 3 Design

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Challenges Overcome

Firebase is Excellent. But it has a few limitations.

1. You cannot store a document value as a data object. So to get around that I stored the document values to Json.
2. You cannot just add an entry to a document. You first have to get the document as a Hashmap, update the hashmap, and then push the updated hashmap as the document (that's 2 network calls instead of 1). So I had to do those when adding to favourites, and when removing from favourites

My first idea was to over-engineer the whole thing 😅 I made a Thread in X about it. You can check it out but don't forget to like and follow ☺️

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Future improvements

First of all, add a navigation animation from the favourite screen details screens.

Also I might use a custom database so that getting and updating favourites will just be a single network call.

finally I should also probably call more APIs to display more details about movies and tv, like credits, video trailer, and add ratings

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Before You Run

Setting The Api Key

• Get an API key from TMDB's Website.
• In the project's root directory, Create a file named apikey.properties
• Then in the apikey.properties file, set the api key as below

TMDB_API_KEY="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

Handling The Keystore Properties

Now you have 2 options here:

1. Option 1 - If you want to be able to get release build variant

   • In Android Studio, create a new keystore file under Build > Genetare Signes Bundle/APK
   • In the project's root directory, Create a file named keystore.properties
   • Then in the keystore.properties file, set the key alias, key password, store password, and store file path as below

   KEY_ALIAS=xxxx
   KEY_PASSWORD=xxxxxxxx
   STORE_PASSWORD=xxxxxxxx
   STORE_FILE=C\:\\xxxx\\xxxx\\xxxx\\xxxx.jks
   

2. Option 2 - If you're okay with debug variant

   If you don't want to go through all that stress, In the Module's build.gradle file, just comment out the following lines of code

   val keystorePropertiesFile: File = rootProject.file("keystore.properties")
   val keystoreProperties = Properties()
   keystoreProperties.load(FileInputStream(keystorePropertiesFile))
   

   Also

   signingConfigs {
           create("release") {
               keyAlias = keystoreProperties.getProperty("KEY_ALIAS")
               keyPassword = keystoreProperties.getProperty("KEY_PASSWORD")
               storePassword = keystoreProperties.getProperty("STORE_PASSWORD")
               storeFile = file(keystoreProperties.getProperty("STORE_FILE"))
           }
       }
   

   And Finally

   buildTypes {
           release {
               isMinifyEnabled = false
               proguardFiles(
                   getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android-optimize.txt"),
                   "proguard-rules.pro"
               )
   
               signingConfig = signingConfigs.getByName("release")
           }
       }
   

   Just make sure the build variant in android studio is set to debug and you're done.

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License

Apache License