Flicks

Flicks is an app that allows users to browse movies from the The Movie Database API.

Flicks Part 2

User Stories

REQUIRED (10pts)

• (8pts) Expose details of movie (ratings using RatingBar, popularity, and synopsis) in a separate activity.
• (2pts) Allow video posts to be played in full-screen using the YouTubePlayerView
  • (1pt) When clicking on a popular movie (i.e. a movie voted for more than 5 stars) the video should be played immediately.
  • (1pt) Less popular videos rely on the detailed page should show an image preview that can initiate playing a YouTube video.

BONUS

• Add a play icon overlay to popular movies to indicate that the movie can be played (1 point).
• Apply the popular ButterKnife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate. (1 point)
• Add a rounded corners for the images using the Glide transformations. (1 point)

App Walkthough GIF

Notes

There was a race condition when starting the detailed screen. Player started before video info was collected.

Open-source libraries used

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android
• SimpleRatingBar - More intuitive rating bar compared to the integrated one

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Flicks Part 1

User Stories

REQUIRED (10pts)

• (10pts) User can view a list of movies (title, poster image, and overview) currently playing in theaters from the Movie Database API.

BONUS

• (2pts) Views should be responsive for both landscape/portrait mode.

  • (1pt) In portrait mode, the poster image, title, and movie overview is shown.
  • (1pt) In landscape mode, the rotated alternate layout should use the backdrop image instead and show the title and movie overview to the right of it.

• (2pts) Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading

• (2pts) Improved the user interface by experimenting with styling and coloring.

• (2pts) 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 Heterogeneous RecyclerViews and use different ViewHolder layout files for popular movies and less popular ones.

App Walkthough GIF

Notes

Open-source libraries used

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