ets-reactnative2/movies_mobile_app

Mobile application using React Native front-end and Java back-end. Displays movies that a user can add to their favourites or watchlist as well as get recommendations based on saved movies to favourites

Movie Time

Description:

Mobile movie application group project that was built using React Native and Expo front end and Java backend. This app allows users to add movies that they have seen to their favorites and movies that they want to watch can be added to their watchlist under their profile. Users can also get movie recommendations according to users' saved movies in favorites. Testing was implemented using Unit and Spring Boot tests.

This project was created using:

Back-end	Front-end
Java	React Native
Spring (Spring Web, Spring Boot)	Expo
Spring Data JPA
H2 Database
Unit Test

MVP Acceptance Criteria:

• View a list of popular movies
• Search for a movie by name
• View movie information
• Add/remove a movie to/from my watchlist
• Add/remove a movie to/from my favourites
• View/edit user's information

Extensions:

• User to be able to create an account
• User to be able to login / logout
• Display movie recommendations
• Ability to rate movies
• Ability to add/remove friends
• View my fiend's favourites

Undertaken and tackled risks:

Learning React Native framework might take time and add extra complexity.

To try this application:

• Install on your machine expo using terminal npm install --global expo-cli
• Open /server using intelliJ IDE
• Run 'ServerApplication'
• Open /client using Visual Studio Code
• In /services create a new file "local_ip.js" and write export const ip = "{Your own IPv4 Address}"; (Needed so your phone knows to connect to your computer's localhost)
• In /services create a new file "apikey.js" and write export const apikey = "{Your own Api Key}";
• In /client root folder run npm install
• Then from /client in terminal run expo start
• Follow the terminal suggestions to open the simulator
• Use login details, email: [email protected], password: 888