Flicks is a movies app using the The Movie Database API.
Time spent: 14 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can view a list of movies currently playing in theaters. Poster images load asynchronously.
- User can view movie details by tapping on a cell.
- User sees loading state while waiting for the API.
- User sees an error message when there is a network error.
- User can pull to refresh the movie list.
The following optional features are implemented:
- Add a tab bar for Now Playing and Top Rated movies.
- Implement segmented control to switch between list view and grid view.
- Add a search bar.
- All images fade in.
- For the large poster, load the low-res image first, switch to high-res when complete.
- Customize the highlight and selection effect of the cell.
- Customize the navigation bar.
The following additional features are implemented:
- AutoLayout
- Stack View
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
Network Request Error:
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- In the movie detail view, with a very large blob of text (more than space avail. on screen / view) for "overview", I couldn't figure out how to have the text truncate to ... while simultaneously not having movies with very sparse text for "overview" to center vertically (i.e. I still want the sparse text starting just below the "title")
Copyright 2016 Jay S. Liew
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