Project 2 - Flix

Flix is a movies app using the The Movie Database API.

Time spent: 25 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is complete:

• [x] User can view a list of movies currently playing in theaters from The Movie Database.
• [x] Poster images are loaded using the UIImageView category in the AFNetworking library.
• [x] User sees a loading state while waiting for the movies API.
• [x] User can pull to refresh the movie list.

The following optional features are implemented:

• [x] User sees an error message when there's a networking error.
• [x] Movies are displayed using a CollectionView instead of a TableView.
• [x] User can search for a movie.
• [x] All images fade in as they are loading.
• [x] Customize the UI.

The following additional features are implemented:

• [x] List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!
• Added details page (Image, Title, Release Date)
• Scrolling feature added to Details Page
• Added Tab feature (Top-Rated, Now Playing, Upcoming)
• Customized navigation bar
• Customed selection cell
• Can switch between table and collection view
• User can click on ticket button which will redirect them to Fandango.com
• Added App icon and launch screen
• Display average rating on details page (which is color coded relative to rating)

Please list two areas of the assignment you'd like to discuss further with your peers during the next class (examples include better ways to implement something, how to extend your app in certain ways, etc):

1. Link to fandango or another movie ticket buying website.
2. Allow the user to rate the movie, and then store in a database or possibly share with an existing database (such as RottenTomatoes)

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Network Error:

App Demo:

Revised Flix: (with added features)

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Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

• It took me a while to figure out how to display the "Networking Label Error" -> I had it on the Table View instead of over it
• Converting from the table view to the collection view was challenging. Modifying the flow layout was also challenging.
• The search bar was tricky at first. When I was in table view, I used "tableView.tableHeaderView", but when I changed to Collection View I couldn't use that method anymore.
• Attempted to include both a table and a collection view, but ran into trouble with the search bar/got errors
• Making the images fade in was also tricky. I had to watch a lot of youtube videos/tutorials :)

Credits

List an 3rd party libraries, icons, graphics, or other assets you used in your app.

• AFNetworking - networking task library
• [MBProgressHUD] - loading symbol

License

Copyright [2016] [Meena Sengottuvelu]

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