OhFlicks 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: 14 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can scroll through current movies from the Movie Database API
- Layout is optimized with the ViewHolder pattern.
- For each movie displayed, user can see the following details:
- Title, Poster Image, Overview (Portrait mode)
- Title, Backdrop Image, Overview (Landscape mode)
The following optional features are implemented:
- Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading.
The following bonus features are implemented:
- Allow user to view details of the movie including ratings and popularity within a separate activity or dialog fragment.
- Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce boilerplate code.
- Apply rounded corners for the poster or background images using Picasso transformations
The following additional features are implemented:
- Apply a default [placeholder graphic] on image loading error
- Apply [Progress Bar] before loading recyclerview
- Error Describing image on failed network
- Apply seperate [progress Bar] views on loading of images
- Apply MVP
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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- Tried horizontal scroll for RecyclerView on Horizontal orientation, it displayed but the text content does not wrap. so i had to go with vertical scrolling for both Vertical and horizontal orientation.
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android
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