Project 1 - CoderMovie
CoderMovie 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: X 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:
The following bonus features are implemented:
- [X] 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.
- [X] Allow video trailers to be played in full-screen using the YouTubePlayerView.
- [X] 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.
- [X] Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce boilerplate code.
- [X] Apply rounded corners for the poster or background images using Picasso transformations
- [X] Replaced android-async-http network client with the popular OkHttp networking libraries.
The following additional features are implemented:
- [ ] List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!
Video Walkthrough
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
Notes
Using Youtube API Player take more time to study
Open-source libraries used
- Retrofit2
- URL parameter replacement and query parameter support
- Object conversion to request body (e.g., JSON, protocol buffers)
- Multipart request body and file upload
- Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android
- ButterKnife - Finding and automatically Casting the corresponding view in your layout.
- Google Gson - Converting Java Objects into their JSON representation
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Youtube Androi API Player - Play youtube video url throught API youtube app
License
Copyright [2017] [David Tran 's copyright]
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.
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