Flix is an app that allows users to browse movies from the The Movie Database API.
- (5pts) User can tap a cell to see more details about a particular movie.
- (5pts) User can tap a tab bar button to view a grid layout of Movie Posters using a CollectionView.
- (2pts) User can tap a poster in the collection view to see a detail screen of that movie.
- (2pts) In the detail view, when the user taps the poster, a new screen is presented modally where they can view the trailer.
The trailer stretch story was slightly more difficult than the rest, but the Codepath documentation on adding this and time within our weekly class made this reasonably easy.
- (2pts) User sees an app icon on the home screen and a styled launch screen.
- (5pts) User can view and scroll through a list of movies now playing in theaters.
- (3pts) User can view the movie poster image for each movie.
- (2pt) User can view the app on various device sizes and orientations.
- (1pt) Run your app on a real device. (I DON'T HAVE AN IPHONE - so I can only run on my macbook's emulators)
Basic Functionality
Highlighting the launch screen showing the Flix logo
Showing Constraints in Action to resize everything when screen is rotated
Showing Constraints in Action to resize everything on iPad
Showing Constraints in Action to resize everything on iPhone 8
I think what made this app slightly easier for me was that I have previously taken Codepath's Android course and so I was used to constraints and the idea of recycling views for a list of unknown size.
I think what was challenging is the setup of the tableview is drastically different than setup of a recyclerview in Android. I cannot wait to learn more about navigation between views as the course goes on.