Project 1 - Flickster
Flickster 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] User can pull-to-refresh popular stream to get the latest movies.
- [x] Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading.
- [x] Improved the user interface through styling and coloring.
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.
- [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 trailers to be played in full-screen using the YouTubePlayerView.
- [x] Overlay a play icon for videos that can be played.
- [x] More popular movies should start a separate activity that plays the video immediately.
- [x] 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
- [ ] Replaced android-async-http network client with the popular OkHttp or Volley networking libraries.
The following additional features are implemented:
- [x] Added a custom launcher icon!
Video Walkthrough
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
Here's a link to a longer walk through (landscape mode included) http://imgur.com/6VV9nFf 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