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Project 2 - Flicks

Flicks 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: 20 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following functionality is completed:

  • User can scroll through current movies from the Movie Database API

The following features are implemented:

  • For each movie displayed, user can see the following details:
  • Title, Poster Image, Overview (Portrait mode)
  • Title, Backdrop Image, Overview (Landscape mode)
  • Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading
  • Allow user to view details of the movie including ratings and popularity within a separate activity
  • Improved the user interface by experimenting with styling and coloring.
  • Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce boilerplate code.
  • Allow video trailers to be played in full-screen using the YouTubePlayerView from the details screen.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Video Walkthrough

GIF created with "Gif Maker" Android App.

Notes

Using Glide v4 was not working at the very first time I was trying to use it, it was my first time using Glive v4.

Open-source libraries used

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

License

Copyright 2019 Pierre Charles PLAISIR

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

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This is a mobile android app to show movies. This is the second assignment from the Facebook Android University at CodePath.

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