lovingrainbow/assignment1_flicks

Movies Browser app

Project 1 - Flicks

Name of your app shows the latest movies currently playing in theaters. The app utilizes the Movie Database API to display images and basic information about these movies to the user.

Time spent: X hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

• User can scroll through current movies from the Movie Database API
• Layout is optimized with the ViewHolder pattern.
• For each movie displayed, user can see the following details:
  • Title, Poster Image, Overview (Portrait mode)
  • Title, Backdrop Image, Overview (Landscape mode)

The following optional features are implemented:

• Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading.
• Improved the user interface through styling and coloring.

The following bonus features are implemented:

• Allow user to view details of the movie including ratings and popularity within a separate activity or dialog fragment.
• When viewing a popular movie (i.e. a movie voted for more than 5 stars) the video should show the full backdrop image as the layout. Uses Heterogenous ListViews or Heterogenous RecyclerView to show different layouts.
• Allow video trailers to be played in full-screen using the YouTubePlayerView.
  • Overlay a play icon for videos that can be played.
  • More popular movies should start a separate activity that plays the video immediately.
  • Less popular videos rely on the detail page should show ratings and a YouTube preview.
• Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce boilerplate code.
• Apply rounded corners for the poster or background images using Picasso transformations
• Replaced android-async-http network client with the popular OkHttp networking libraries.

The following additional features are implemented:

• List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

Open-source libraries used

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

License

Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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assignment1_flicks's Issues

Project Feedback!

👍 Looks good overall. We hope you'll be able to complete more optionals and/or improve the look and feel of the app in the future.
In a few hours, a "Report" tab will show up in the course system that will give you more details about your submission. You can also check out the project scoring rubric to learn more about improving the UI and code quality of submissions more generally.

I have provided a detailed Project 1 Feedback Guide here which covers the most common issues with this submitted project. Read through the feedback guide point-by-point to determine how you could improve your submission. You should consider going back and implementing applicable feedback as well. Keep in mind that one of the most important parts of Android development is learning the correct patterns and conventions.

Hopefully this has given you a first sense of the RelativeLayout which is a very powerful layout system, probably one of the best responsive-first layout systems available across web and mobile platforms.

I would encourage you to also spend more time in future assignments improving the UI / UX as well by reviewing examples of good UI design.

The next assignment will build on top of the first concepts introduced here and will also introduce networking, api use, handling remote images and navigating between activities.

If you have any particular questions about the assignment in general or on any of the feedback, feel free to reply here or post on the discussion forum.