Project 2 - Flix2

Flix2 is a movies app using the The Movie Database API.

Time spent: 15 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is complete:

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:

Trailer loads on tapping backdrop.
Related movies button.
Parsed and prettified date.

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):

Saving favorites persistently through app resets.
UX and graphical design choices

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Gesture controls to trigger segues proved a little difficult. Also, I realized many of my views should be subclasses of a class that describes a collection of movies; rewrting this code over and over again wasted time. I would also like to learn a lot more about graphic design and make the app more visually appealing.

Credits

List an 3rd party libraries, icons, graphics, or other assets you used in your app.

AFNetworking - networking task library

License

Copyright 2018 Miles Olson

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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