timothy1ee
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10 years ago Good job! The point of this homework was to explore a simple example of a full MVC application with a RESTful API. Sorry for the delay in answering your question, my email is usually pretty overloaded, Facebook is the best place for support.
Shimmer looks cool, what is your question though? Did you try to use it and something went wrong?
For your information, here is the checklist that I use when I review the homework:
- Code styling. The New York Times has a good summary of appropriate Objective-C coding conventions, you should take a quick look here.
- Movie model. Did you have some way to create it from a dictionary?
- You should have implemented a custom cell. When creating a custom cell, make sure never to use imageView, titleLabel, or subtitleLabel. Those are already used by UITableViewCell and using them in your custom cell will cause subtle things to happen such as image views not loading until you click on the cell.
- You should have loaded all the images asynchronously. One way to do that was to use AFNetworking, installed via CocoaPods.
- You should observe the UIContentMode of the UIImageView. By default, it will stretch the image to match your dimensions, which is probably not what you want.
- If you had a custom cell, you should configure the Auto Layout parameters. We'll review that in class.
- Did you display some loading indicator while you were fetching the movies.
- Did you display an error if you failed while fetching the movies.
@timothy1ee
My viewDidLoad in the MoviesIndexViewController is incredibly bloated, so I know I'm going to have to refactor a lot. Planning on doing that today and continuing to work on the optional stories (am in the early stages of the tab bars).
As a way to expand upon the project, I wanted to flex my design skills and implement https://github.com/facebook/Shimmer on my launch image, along with adding a red gradient using this pod https://github.com/jgrandelli/KXKiOS7ColorsAndGradients. Any suggestions on how to approach this?