Project 2 - CodePath Movie Application

Golden Ticket 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: 26 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

[X] User can scroll through current movies from the Movie Database API
[X] Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading
[X] For each movie displayed, user can see the following details:
- [X] Title, Poster Image, Overview (Portrait mode)
- [X] Title, Backdrop Image, Overview (Landscape mode)
[X] Allow user to view details of the movie including ratings and popularity within a separate activity

The following stretch features are implemented:

[X] Improved the user interface by experimenting with styling and coloring.
[X] Apply rounded corners for the poster or background images using Glide transformations
[X] Apply the popular View Binding annotation library to reduce boilerplate code.
[X] Allow video trailers to be played in full-screen using the YouTubePlayerView from the details screen.

The following additional features are implemented:

[X] Custom application icon
[X] Include genres and release date

Video Walkthrough

Shows the above features of the application

App Demo Link

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

For my second application, I feel that I have done much better. There is much more I can improve on, but I have a stronger view of RecyclerView, Adapters, ViewHolders, the bind method, and the "new" operator which saved me in the last few minutes of this assignment

Some problems I encountered:

- Was passing object lists without initializing with "new", kept passing null when dealing with functions .size(),
    halting the development

- Trouble passing JSON data for YouTube url through MainActivity, realized it would be better to pass in through the 
    MovieDetailsActivity

- Getting onClick() to work, need more practice with this. Decided to use the .xml Design onClick function instead

Open-source libraries used

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

License

Copyright 2020 Nicholas Powell

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

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