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: 12 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:
- List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
- I faced some problems passing data from the detail view to the trailer activity view to get the YouTube URL to display the trailer for the selected movie. I solved this issue after asking for help to understand intents and extras as well as by adding Log messages and looking at Logcat to see the current status/position of the code.
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android
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