Project 2 - FBUFlix

FBUFlix 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] Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading
• [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)
• [x] Allow user to view details of the movie including ratings and popularity within a separate activity

The following stretch features are implemented:

• [x] Improved the user interface by experimenting with styling and coloring.
• [x] Apply rounded corners for the poster or background images using Glide transformations
• [x] Apply the popular View Binding annotation library to reduce boilerplate code.
• [x] Allow video trailers to be played in full-screen using the YouTubePlayerView from the details screen.

The following additional features are implemented:

• [x] Play button only appears if there is a trailer available
• [x] The YouTube trailer is filtered through rather than indexing the first option

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

I had a much more complex method of parceling objects for intents until I read the documentation. I also faced many bugs with my emulator and android support libraries. I debugged them all after an hour. In addition, designing on AndroidStudio is difficult comparatively to my web development background.

For the Stretch Stories, I faced some new challenges. Modularization of my code in a neat matter proved to be a bit bothersome due to the asynchronous callback from the API. I struggled with getting the ViewBinding Library to import the classes and the YT Video API Player had a minor error I worked too long on where I used the wrong string for the key argument.

My current challenge is the theme. Changing the theme has been proven difficult - especially getting it into a dark theme.

Open-source libraries used

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android

License

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