Flickster

Flickster is an Android App assignment for viewing Movies with title, poster image, overview, from The Movie DB API.

Time spent: 18 hours (i3 core, 4GB RAM, Windows 8.1)

Completed User Stories

Required

Required: User can view a list of movies (title, poster image, and overview) currently playing in theaters from The Movie Database API.
Required: Views should be responsive for both landscape/portrait mode and fully optimized for performance with the ViewHolder pattern.

Optional

Advanced: Add pull-to-refresh for popular stream with SwipeRefreshLayout
Advanced: Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading
Advanced: Improve the user interface through styling and coloring
Advanced: For popular movies (i.e. a movie voted for more than 5 stars), the full backdrop image is displayed. Otherwise, a poster image, the movie title, and overview is listed
Bonus: Expose details of movie (ratings using RatingBar, popularity, and synopsis) in a separate activity

Video preview of what it does

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Gif Animation created with LiceCap.

Open-source libraries used

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

License

Copyright [2016] [Keitel Jovin]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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KeitelDOG / Flickster