Flix is a movies app using the The Movie Database API.
Time spent: 14 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is complete:
- User sees app icon in home screen and styled launch screen
- User can view a list of movies currently playing in theaters from The Movie Database.
- Poster images are loaded using the UIImageView category in the AFNetworking library.
- User sees a loading state while waiting for the movies API.
- User can pull to refresh the movie list.
The following optional features are implemented:
- User sees an error message when there's a networking error.
- Movies are displayed using a CollectionView instead of a TableView.
- User can search for a movie.
- All images fade in as they are loading.
- User can view the large movie poster by tapping on a cell.
- For the large poster, load the low resolution image first and then switch to the high resolution image when complete.
- Customize the selection effect of the cell.
- Customize the navigation bar.
- Customize the UI.
The following additional features are implemented:
- List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!
Please list two areas of the assignment you'd like to discuss further with your peers during the next class (examples include better ways to implement something, how to extend your app in certain ways, etc):
- I'd like to improve the UI and be able to customize it more and make it look better
- It would be nice to implement infinite scrolling and be able to access more movie data to increase the number of movies the user can look through
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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Implementing the collection view was difficult, along with the search bar, because I was reading through instructions that weren't specific to implementing the functions in the app I was actually making, but continuously tweaking things and eventually figuring it out helped me get a lot more comfortable with Swift and iOS development and start to understand more fully what I was doing
List an 3rd party libraries, icons, graphics, or other assets you used in your app.
- AFNetworking - networking task library
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