- (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.
- Trailers for popular movies are played automatically when the movie is selected (1 point).
- 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.
- 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)
Some of the challenges that I faced while building this application involved retrieving the data from the API properly in order to display the trailers for each particular movie.
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android
Flix is an app that allows users to browse movies from the The Movie Database API.
- (10pts) User can view a list of movies (title, poster image, and overview) currently playing in theaters from the Movie Database API.
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(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.
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(2pts) Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading
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(2pts) Improved the user interface by experimenting with styling and coloring.
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(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 Heterogenous RecyclerViews and use different ViewHolder layout files for popular movies and less popular ones.
Some of the challenges that I faced while building this application involved creating the MoviesAdapter in order to properly display all of the data in their appropriate views. At one point, I realized that I did not build the constructor properly for the MoviesAdapter since it was missing one of the member variables which was the actual list of movies. Once all the required member variables were passed into the constructor, the MoviesAdapter was able to successfully assist in displaying all of the information regarding the movies.
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Glide - Image loading and caching library for Androids