Flix is a movies app using the The Movie Database API.
Time spent: 14 hours spent in total
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:
- User taps the poster, a new screen is presented modally where they can view the trailer
- User taps the poster in Collection View, and Detail View appears
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):
- I'd like to discuss the search bar filtering further with my peers. It would be interesting to see the different ways to filter out the data besides just the title. A user could input a certain genre or rating for example and be able to see the movies that relate to that property.
- It would also be interesting to connect to the Rotten Tomatoes API and be able to have reviews for the movies listed under to enhance user experience and talk to my peers about ideas related to user interaction.
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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It was challenging working with the get videos API because the JSON schema was different, so I had to understand how exactly the data was organized in order to get the YouTube video ID from the API. I also had issues with figuring out which class to implement certain functions related to fetching data, but I was able to understand it better after this project.
List an 3rd party libraries, icons, graphics, or other assets you used in your app.
- AFNetworking - networking task library
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