Popular Movies

• Project for Android Developer Nanodregree by Udacity.
• In this project, you will build an app to help users discover popular and recent movies. You will build a clean UI, sync to a server, and present information to the user.

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• Popular Movies

• Project Meets Required Specifications

  • Common Project Requirements
  • User Interface - Layout
  • User Interface - Function
  • Network API Implementation
  • Data Persistence

• Libraries

• Extras

• Getting Started

• Art

  • App Poster
  • Nexus 5 Screens
  • Nexus 7 Screens
  • Pixel C Screens

Project Meets Required Specifications

Common Project Requirements

• App is written solely in the Java Programming Language.
• Movies are displayed in the main layout via a grid of their corresponding movie poster thumbnails.
• UI contains an element (i.e a spinner or settings menu) to toggle the sort order of the movies by: most popular, highest rated.
• UI contains a screen for displaying the details for a selected movie.
• Movie details layout contains title, release date, movie poster, vote average, and plot synopsis.
• App conforms to common standards found in the Android Nanodegree General Project Guidelines.

User Interface - Layout

• UI contains an element (e.g., a spinner or settings menu) to toggle the sort order of the movies by: most popular, highest rated.
• Movies are displayed in the main layout via a grid of their corresponding movie poster thumbnails.
• UI contains a screen for displaying the details for a selected movie.
• Movie Details layout contains title, release date, movie poster, vote average, and plot synopsis.
• Movie Details layout contains a section for displaying trailer videos and user reviews.

User Interface - Function

• When a user changes the sort criteria (most popular, highest rated, and favorites) the main view gets updated correctly.
• When a movie poster thumbnail is selected, the movie details screen is launched.
• When a trailer is selected, app uses an Intent to launch the trailer.
• In the movies detail screen, a user can tap a button(for example, a star) to mark it as a Favorite.

Network API Implementation

• In a background thread, app queries the /movie/popular or /movie/top_rated API for the sort criteria specified in the settings menu.
• App requests for related videos for a selected movie via the /movie/{id}/videos endpoint in a background thread and displays those details when the user selects a movie.
• App requests for user reviews for a selected movie via the /movie/{id}/reviews endpoint in a background thread and displays those details when the user selects a movie.

Data Persistence

• The titles and ids of the user's favorite movies are stored in a ContentProvider backed by a SQLite database. This ContentProvider is updated whenever the user favorites or unfavorites a movie.
• When the "favorites" setting option is selected, the main view displays the entire favorites collection based on movie ids stored in the ContentProvider.

Libraries

• Volley
• Glide

Extras

Some extra features added:

• Short by upcomig option addded.
• Store favorites, top rated, most popular and upcoming movies into separeated databases.

Getting Started

• Popular Movies App uses The Movie Database API. In order to run the app you must create your own API key.
• Click to create an API key
• When you get it, just set it in: gradle.properties -> MyTheMovieDBApiToken="INSERT_YOUR_KEY_HERE"

Art

App Poster

Nexus 5 Screens

Nexus 7 Screens

Pixel C Screens