Movie databse read-only android application
This is an Android Movie database read-only application
Time spent: 24 hours spent in total
Completed user stories:
- User can view a list of movies (title, poster image, and overview) currently playing in theaters from the Movie Database API.
- Lists should be fully optimized for performance with the ViewHolder pattern.
- Views should be responsive for both landscape/portrait mode.
- In portrait mode, the poster image, title, and movie overview is shown.
- In landscape mode, the rotated layout should use the backdrop image instead and show the title and movie overview to the right of it.
Optional user stories:
- Add pull-to-refresh for popular stream with SwipeRefreshLayout.
- Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading (read more about Picasso).
- Improve the user interface through styling and coloring.
- Hided ActionBar
- For popular movies (i.e. a movie voted for more than 5 stars), the full backdrop image is displayed. Otherwise, a poster image, the movie title, and overview is listed. Use Heterogenous ListViews and use different ViewHolder layout files for popular movies and less popular ones.
- Stretch: Expose details of movie (ratings using RatingBar, popularity, and synopsis) in a separate activity.
- Stretch: Allow video posts to be played in full-screen using the YouTubePlayerView.
- When clicking on a popular movie (i.e. a movie voted for more than 5 stars) the video should be played immediately.
- Less popular videos rely on the detailed page should show an image preview that can initiate playing a YouTube video.
- Stretch: Add a play icon overlay to popular movies to indicate that the movie can be played.
- Stretch: Leverage the data binding support module to bind data into one or more activity layout templates.
- Stretch: Add a rounded corners for the images using the Picasso transformations.
Additional:
- Replace ListView with RecyclerView.
The data source in this app is from The Movie Database. Special thanks to the android-async-http, Picasso, and YouTube open-source libraries.
Walkthrough of all user stories:
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