Project 2 - Flixster

Flixster 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: 15 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

• User can scroll through current movies from the Movie Database API
• Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading
• For each movie displayed, user can see the following details:
  • Title, Poster Image, Overview (Portrait mode)
  • Title, Backdrop Image, Overview (Landscape mode)
• Allow user to view details of the movie including ratings within a separate activity

The following stretch features are implemented:

• Improved the user interface by experimenting with styling and coloring.
• Apply rounded corners for the poster or background images using Glide transformations
• Apply the popular View Binding annotation library to reduce boilerplate code.
• Allow video trailers to be played in full-screen using the YouTubePlayerView from the details screen.

The following additional features are implemented:

• Display additional movie info: genre tags, release date, vote count, and content rating
• User can filter movies by genre with a checklist
• User can sort movies by rating by toggling a switch

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with Kap.

Notes

6/23

• Finished required stories
• Started working on bonus stories (improving styling/coloring, rounded corners, and activity binding)

6/24

• Implemented YouTube trailer feature
• Added movie info (content rating, release date, vote count, genres)
• Genre ids are mapped to their names via API call to GET /genre/movie/list

6/25

• Added "now playing" title
• Implemented filter by genre
• Implemented sort by rating
• Cleaned code

Open-source libraries used

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

License

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