RottenTomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes

This is a movies app displaying box office and top rental DVDs using the Rotten Tomatoes API.

Time spent: 5H

Features

Required

• User can view a list of movies. Poster images load asynchronously.
• User can view movie details by tapping on a cell.
• User sees loading state while waiting for the API.
• User sees error message when there is a network error: https://github.com/charytu/RottenTomatoes/blob/master/networkerror.png
• User can pull to refresh the movie list.

Optional

• All images fade in.
• For the larger poster, load the low-res first and switch to high-res when complete.
• All images should be cached in memory and disk: AppDelegate has an instance of NSURLCache and NSURLRequest makes a request with NSURLRequestReturnCacheDataElseLoad cache policy. I tested it by turning off wifi and restarting the app.
• Customize the highlight and selection effect of the cell.
• Customize the navigation bar.
• Add a tab bar for Box Office and DVD.
• Add a search bar: pretty simple implementation of searching against the existing table view data.

Walkthrough

Credits

• Rotten Tomatoes API
• AFNetworking
• SVProgressHUD