Popular Movies (UDACITY Android Developer Nanodegree)

Project Overview

In this Popular Movies project, the app was built in two stages. In Stage 1,

Upon launch, the user is presented with an grid arrangement of movie posters.
Allowed the user to change sort order via a setting:
- The sort order can be by most popular, or by top rated
Allowed the user to tap on a movie poster and transition to a details screen with additional information such as:
- original title
- movie poster image thumbnail
- a plot synopsis (called overview in the api)
- user rating (called vote_average in the api)
- release date

In Stage 2, Additional functionality was added to the app that was built in Stage 1.

More information added to the movie details view:

Users allowed to view and play trailers ( either in the youtube app or a web browser).
Users allowed to read reviews of a selected movie.
Users allowed to mark a movie as a favorite in the details view by tapping a button(star). This is for a local movies collection that is maintained and does not require an API request.
Modified the existing sorting criteria for the main view to include an additional pivot to show the user's favorites collection.

https://github.com/douggharvey/PopularMovies.git

Open Android Studio and open the project from File > Open...
Obtain a developer API key from The Movie DB API.
Enter the API key in the project gradle.properties file with syntax: API_KEY="your api key"