Most of us can relate to kicking back on the couch and enjoying a movie with friends and family. In this project, I have built an app to allow users to discover the most popular movies playing.
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My app will present the user with a grid arrangement of movie posters upon launch.
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Allows user to change sort order via a setting menu. When sort criteria (most popular, highest rated, and favorites) is changed the main view gets updated accordingly.
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When the "favorites" setting option is selected, the main view displays the entire favorites collection.
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Allows the user to tap on a movie poster and transition to a details screen with additional information such as original title, movie poster, image thumbnail, A plot synopsis (called overview in the api), user rating (called vote_average in the api) and release date
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App will fetch trailers and reviews by making a network request and displays data in RecyclerView.
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When a trailer is selected, app launchs the trailer in YouTube.
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In the movies detail screen, a user can tap on "Mark As Favorite" button to mark that particular movie as favorite.
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The titles, IDs, movie poster, synopsis, user rating, and release date of the user’s favorite movies are stored using Room and are updated whenever the user favorites or unfavorites a movie. Display favorite movies even when offline.
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Sharing functionality has been implemented to allow the user to share the trailer’s YouTube URL.
Through this project:
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Creating a gridview with custom adaptor
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Parcelables and onSaveInstanceState()
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Using Picasso library
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Using Lint to check errors and warning in the project
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Practice consuming data from RESTful API and JSON parsing to a model object
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Making sure my app does not crash when there is no network connection!
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Design activity layouts
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Android architecture components(Room, LiveData, ViewModel):
a. Database is implemented using Room to store Favorite movies.
b. Database is not re-queried unnecessarily. LiveData is used to observe changes in the database and update the UI accordingly.
c. Database is not re-queried unnecessarily after rotation. Cached LiveData from ViewModel is used instead.
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Retrofit
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gson
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RecycleView with Adapter
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Executors
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Add your own API key in gradle.properties and use BuildConfig property.