Popular Movies Stage 2 project for the Udacity Android Nanodegree Program

Project Overview

The app fetches data from http://api.themoviedb.org and uses it to show the top rated or most popular movies in a grid layout displayed in a recyclerview. Each item can be clicked to show more details about the specific movie

Api key

In order for the project to work you need a themoviedb api key. The key needs to be replaced in the: /app/src/main/java/com/example/tudor/popularmovies/utils/NetworkUtils.java private static String API_KEY = ApiUtils.getApiKey(); // Replace with your api key

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Common Project Requirements

• App is written solely in the Java Programming Language.
• App conforms to common standards found in the Android Nanodegree General Project Guidelines.

User Interface - Layout

• UI contains an element (e.g., a spinner or settings menu) to toggle the sort order of the movies by: most popular, highest rated.
• Movies are displayed in the main layout via a grid of their corresponding movie poster thumbnails.
• UI contains a screen for displaying the details for a selected movie.
• Movie Details layout contains title, release date, movie poster, vote average, and plot synopsis.
• Movie Details layout contains a section for displaying trailer videos and user reviews.

User Interface - Function

• When a user changes the sort criteria (most popular, highest rated, and favorites) the main view gets updated correctly.
• When a movie poster thumbnail is selected, the movie details screen is launched.
• When a trailer is selected, app uses an Intent to launch the trailer.
• In the movies detail screen, a user can tap a button(for example, a star) to mark it as a Favorite.

Network API Implementation

• In a background thread, app queries the /movie/popular or /movie/top_rated API for the sort criteria specified in the settings menu.

• App requests for related videos for a selected movie via the /movie/{id}/videos endpoint in a background thread and displays those details when the user selects a movie.

• App requests for user reviews for a selected movie via the /movie/{id}/reviews endpoint in a background thread and displays those details when the user selects a movie.

Data Persistence

• The titles and IDs of the user’s favorite movies are stored in a native SQLite database and are exposed via a ContentProvider. This ContentProvider is updated whenever the user favorites or unfavorites a movie. No other persistence libraries are used.

Data Persistence

• When the "favorites" setting option is selected, the main view displays the entire favorites collection based on movie ids stored in the ContentProvider.