Flix

Project 1 - Flix

Flix is a great way to keep yourself updated on the most recent and popular movies.

Submitted by: Sumedha Mehta

Time spent: ~16 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is complete:

• User can view a list of movies currently playing in theaters from The Movie Database (title, poster image, and overview).
• Poster images are loaded using the UIImageView category in the AFNetworking library.
• The movie poster is available by appending the returned poster_path to https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342.
• User sees a loading state while waiting for the movies API (you can use any 3rd party library available to do this).
• User can pull to refresh the movie list.

The following optional features are implemented:

• [ ] User sees an error message when there's a networking error. You may not use UIAlertController or a 3rd party library to display the error. See this screenshot for what the error message should look like.
• Movies are displayed using a CollectionView instead of a TableView.
• User can search for a movie.
• [ ] All images fade in as they are loading.
• User can view the large movie poster by tapping on a cell.
• [ ] For the large poster, load the low resolution image first and then switch to the high resolution image when complete.
• [ ] Customize the selection effect of the cell.
• Customize the navigation bar.
• Customize the UI. You can use Iconmonstr and The Noun Project as good sources of images.

The following additional features are implemented:

• Displayed the # of stars based on the rating
• Linked each movie to IMDb page
• Had a details page for each movie

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

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Credits

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• AFNetworking - networking task library

License

Copyright 2016 Sumedha Mehta

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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