Flixter 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: 20 hours spent in total

The following required functionality is completed:

• User can scroll through current movies from the Movie Database API
• For each movie displayed, user can see the following details:
  • Title, Poster Image, Overview (Portrait mode)
  • Title, Backdrop Image, Overview (Landscape mode)
• Layout is optimized with the ViewHolder pattern.
• User can pull-to-refresh popular stream to get the latest movies.
• Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading.

The following optional features are implemented:

• Improved the user interface through styling and coloring.
• 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.

The following stretch features are implemented:

• 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.
• Leverages the data binding support module to bind data into layout templates.
• Uses retrolambda expressions to cleanup event handling blocks.
• 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 lower-level OkHttp networking library.
• Replaced all icon drawables and other static image assets with vector drawables where appropriate.

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

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• I encountered a difficulty of launching activity within view holder class, and did some research on that myself. Also it was difficult to maintain scrolling position and similar stuff that I want to keep when configuration like orientation changes, without a specific tutorial.

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android
• ButterKnife - Field and method binding for Android views
• [RetroLambda]

Copyright [Lindsey Liu]

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