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MarvelPedia

Comics Browsing App (WedMeGood Assignment)

NOTE: If you get any error toast while loading the comics tab. Close the app and open it again. Sometimes Request gets TimeOut

NOTE: Please add your private and public keys to local.properties gradle file as
PRIVATE_KEY={your_key}
PUBLIC_KEY={your_key}
without curly braces {} and without any double quotes "". Don't add trailing space after your key also

Video Demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y5_1S67F0Y&t=1s

APK download link

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2nGf8LzrZuJQ290bHFoUFh3cDQ

ScreenShots

                       

Features

  • Get list of all Marvel Characters and Comics
  • Search any Character or Comics by entering the starting letters (ex: sp for spider man, av for avengers, iro for iron man)
  • Get details of any Comics and Character by clicking on its card.

ExtraPoints (According to problem given)

  • A search for characters and comics --> IMPLEMENTED. Click on Fab search icon to search for characters/comics
  • Animations and transitions --> IMPLEMENTED. Can be seen in SplashActivity, top cover image in MainActivity
  • Telling us your favorite marvel hero. And why? (This is very important) --> IMPLEMENTED. Click on Heart image in app(inside MainActivity) to know more

Components Used

  • GridLayout
  • RecyclerView
  • RecyclerView.Adapter<> & ViewHolder
  • ViewPager
  • TabLayout
  • Fragments
  • FragmentPagerAdapter
  • MaterialDesign(CoordinatorLayout, AppBarLayout, CollapsingToolbarLayout, CardViews)
  • Animations
  • Some famous 3rd party libraries(see below)

Libraries

  • Retrofit with GSON (for making API calls and de-serialisation of JSON response to POJO class)
  • ButterKnife (to avoid findViewById() calls)
  • DesignLibrary (for material design)
  • Glide (for loading images from a given url)

Looking forward to your reply. Hope you will like it :-)

My Repos

https://github.com/deeps2