Project 1 - Kraken Flicks
Kraken Flicks is a movies app using the The Movie Database API.
Time spent: ∞ hours spent in total
User Stories
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can view a list of movies currently playing in theaters. Poster images load asynchronously.
- User can view movie details by tapping on a cell.
- User sees loading state while waiting for the API.
- User sees an error message when there is a network error.
- User can pull to refresh the movie list.
The following optional features are implemented:
- Add a tab bar for Now Playing and Top Rated movies.
- Implement segmented control to switch between list view and grid view.
- Add a search bar.
- All images fade in.
- For the large poster, load the low-res image first, switch to high-res when complete.
- Customize the highlight and selection effect of the cell.
- Customize the navigation bar.
The following additional features are implemented:
- Using Custom Fonts - OpenSans.
- Added Genres to Movies list.
- Added Browser to launch Movie Homepage from Movie Detail.
- Added App Icon - Kraken Flicks.
- When image fails, loads the Kraken Failed placeholder image.
- Using NSNotificationCenter to notify when layouts should be updated in ViewController.
- Customized MBProgressHUD so it's explicit/informative between Loading and Searching.
- Added Infinity Scroll.
- Used SwiftyJSON - a better way to deal with JSON data in Swift.
- Used DZNEmptyDataSet - for showing empty datasets whenever the view has no content to display.
Video Walkthrough
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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Open-source libraries used
- AFNetworking - a delightful networking framework for iOS, OS X, watchOS, and tvOS.
- MBProgressHUD - an iOS drop-in class that displays a translucent HUD with an indicator and/or labels while work is being done in a background thread.
- SwiftyJSON - a better way to deal with JSON data in Swift.
- DZNEmptyDataSet - for showing empty datasets whenever the view has no content to display.
License
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Copyright 2016 Ernest Semerda (http://www.ernestsemerda.com/)
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