Flix
Flix is an app that allows users to browse movies from the The Movie Database API.
Flix Part 2
User Stories
REQUIRED (10pts)
- [X] (5pts) User can tap a cell to see more details about a particular movie.
- [X] (5pts) User can tap a tab bar button to view a grid layout of Movie Posters using a CollectionView.
BONUS
- [ ] (2pts) User can tap a poster in the collection view to see a detail screen of that movie.
- [ ] (2pts) In the detail view, when the user taps the poster, a new screen is presented modally where they can view the trailer.
App Walkthrough GIF
Notes
Flix Part 1
User Stories
REQUIRED (10pts)
- [X] (2pts) User sees an app icon on the home screen and a styled launch screen.
- [X] (5pts) User can view and scroll through a list of movies now playing in theaters.
- [X] (3pts) User can view the movie poster image for each movie.
App Walkthrough GIF
Notes
One challenge I faced when building the app was installing cocoapods. It would crash mid-way and display ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. Per stackoverflow, I had an outdated version of Ruby on my system and so I had to update ruby and delete outdated files. Instead of using sudo to install cocoapods, I used homebrew and it worked :raised_hands: