Flix is a movies app using the The Movie Database API.
Time spent: 15 hours spent in total
The following required user stories are complete:
- User sees app icon in home screen and styled launch screen (+1pt)
- User can scroll through a list of movies currently playing in theaters from The Movie DB API (+5pt)
- User can "Pull to refresh" the movie list (+2pt)
- User sees a loading state while waiting for the movies to load (+2pt)
The following stretch user stories are implemented:
- User sees an alert when there's a networking error (+1pt)
- User can search for a movie (+3pt)
- While poster is being fetched, user see's a placeholder image (+1pt)
- User sees image transition for images coming from network, not when it is loaded from cache (+1pt)
- Customize the selection effect of the cell (+1pt)
- For the large poster, load the low resolution image first and then switch to the high resolution image when complete (+2pt)
The following additional user stories are implemented:
- List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality! (+1-3pts)
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):
- Implementing the UITableView Cell
- Podfiles
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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I couldn't install the Alamofire dependency thus in order for me to display poster image I had to load an image from the url. In addition, I kept running into errors regarding the tableviewcell. At one point I was unable to dequeue a cell with identifier MovieCell, xcode wouldn't recognize the identifier or the connected prototype Movie cell in the storyboard.
Flix-Part2 is a movies app displaying box office and top rental DVDs using The Movie Database API.
Time spent: X hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can tap a cell to see a detail view (+5pts)
- User can tap a tab bar button to view a grid layout of Movie Posters using a CollectionView (+5pts)
The following stretch features are implemented:
- User can tap a poster in the collection view to see a detail screen of that movie (+3pts)
- In the detail view, when the user taps the poster, a new screen is presented modally where they can view the trailer (+3pts)
- Customize the navigation bar (+1pt)
- List in any optionals you didn't finish from last week (+1-3pts)
- ...
- ...
The following additional features are implemented:
- List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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