Project 1 - Flicks

Flicks 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

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

[x] User can scroll through current movies from the Movie Database API
[x] Layout is optimized with the ViewHolder pattern.
[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)

The following optional features are implemented:

[x] Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading.

The following bonus features are implemented:

[x] Improve the user interface through styling and coloring.
[x] Allow user to view details of the movie including ratings and popularity within a separate activity or dialog fragment.
[x] 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.
[x] Allow video posts to be played in full-screen using the YouTubePlayerView
- [x] When clicking on a popular movie (i.e. a movie voted for more than 5 stars) the video should be played immediately.
- [x] Less popular videos rely on the detailed page should show an image preview that can initiate playing a YouTube video.
[ ] Add a play icon overlay to popular movies to indicate that the movie can be played.
[ ] Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce boilerplate code.
[x] Apply rounded corners for the poster or background images using Picasso transformations
[ ] Replaced android-async-http network client with the popular OkHttp networking libraries.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Video walkthrough

GIF created with LiceCap.

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

App Icon

"if_Camera_669941" by Just UI is licensed under CC BY 3.0

License

Copyright [2017] [Dharini Chandrasekaran]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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