/Flixter

A short movie Android app to browse the current movies in theaters. Created during Meta University Internship, Menlo Park CA.

Primary LanguageJava

Project 1 - Flixter

Name of your app 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: 9 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

  • User can scroll through current movies from the Movie Database API
  • Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading
  • For each movie displayed, user can see the following details:
    • Title, Poster Image, Overview (Portrait mode)
    • Title, Backdrop Image, Overview (Landscape mode)
  • Allow user to view details of the movie including ratings within a separate activity

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Notes

My computer was not accessible for day 1 of 2 in the office. It was stuck in a reboot loop, so I was given about 4 hours less than others as I spent a decent amount of time fixing the laptop with Meta's Helpdesk.

Open-source libraries used

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

License

Copyright [2022] [Victor Eduardo Goncalves]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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