/flicks

Primary LanguageSwift

Project 1 - Flicks

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

Time spent: 20+ hours spent in total (I'm slow :))

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.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

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Notes

  • I spent a good few hours on the search bar implementation, and once I started to keep track of the search state (i.e. active or non-active) I was able to hook up the correct data.
  • Resizing images programmatically was also somewhat challenging.
  • I'm still in the midst of implementing the segmented control. I have a collection view but am not able to populate it with the poster images just yet (however, it does work using the color label). Understanding the hierarchy of the collection view within a view controller that contains a table view, took me a while to wrap my head around.

License

Copyright [2017] [Angie Lal]

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