llleodeleon/popularmovies

Discover the most popular movies playing with this Android App

Pop Movies

Project Overview

Most of us can relate to kicking back on the couch and enjoying a movieDetail with friends and family. This app allow users to discover the most popular movies playing.

This app does:

• Present the user with a grid arrangement of movieDetail posters upon launch.
• Allow your user to change sort order via a setting:
• The sort order can be by most popular or by highest-rated
• Allow the user to tap on a movieDetail poster and transition to a details screen with additional information such as:
  • original title
  • movieDetail poster image thumbnail
  • A plot synopsis (called overview in the api)
  • user rating (called vote_average in the api)
  • release date

How to build

This app utilises the following API's:

• [The Movie DB] (https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/getting-started)
• Youtube Data v3

Create the API keys in both services and put them in your local gradle.properties file:

Windows: C:\Users\YOUR-USERNAME\.gradle\gradle.properties

Mac: Users/YOUR-USERNAME/.gradle/gradle.properties

...
MovieDBApiKey="YOUR-KEY-HERE"
DeveloperConsoleApiKey="YOUR-KEY-HERE"

popularmovies's Issues

App crash if Network is not available

While the application is not connected to the internet the app crash with the error

Unable to resolve host "api.themoviedb.org": No address associated with hostname