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Project 1 - Flixster

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:

  • Monday: 5 hours
  • Tuesday: 5 hours
  • Wednesday: 5 hours
  • Thursday: 6 hours
  • Friday: 2.5 hours Total: 24.5

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

  • User can scroll through current movies from the Movie Database API
  • For each movie displayed, user can see the following details:
    • Title, Poster Image, Overview (Portrait mode)
    • Title, Backdrop Image, Overview (Landscape mode)
  • Layout is optimized with the ViewHolder pattern.
  • User can pull-to-refresh popular stream to get the latest movies.
  • Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading.

The following optional features are implemented:

  • Improved the user interface through styling and coloring.
  • Allow user to view details of the movie including ratings and popularity within a separate activity or dialog fragment.
  • When viewing a popular movie (i.e. a movie voted for more than 5 stars) the video should show the full backdrop image as the layout. Uses Heterogenous ListViews or Heterogenous RecyclerView to show different layouts.
  • [-] Allow video trailers to be played in full-screen using the YouTubePlayerView.
    • User can click on a movie poster and a full-screen YouTubePlayerView will appear. I didn't finish this feature, my progress is in the Youtube Branch
    • Overlay a play icon for videos that can be played.
    • More popular movies should start a separate activity that plays the video immediately.
    • Less popular videos rely on the detail page should show ratings and a YouTube preview.
  • Leverages the data binding support module to bind data into layout templates.
  • Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce boilerplate code.
  • Apply rounded corners for the poster or background images using Picasso transformations

The following additional features are implemented:

  • Enable Lambda syntax and use for event handling

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories: video

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

Open-source libraries used

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

License

Copyright 2016 Laura Kelly

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.