Popular Movies

Here is a fully functional and colorful android app which I made from scratch for Android Developer Nanodegree program. This app reveals the power of adaptive UI both for phone and tablet devices.

Popular Movies was highly evaluated by certified Udacity code reviewer and was graded as "Exceeds Specifications".

Features

With the app, you can:

• Discover the most popular, the most rated or the highest rated movies
• Save favorite movies locally to view them even when offline
• Watch trailers
• Read reviews

App

• Google Play

PROJECT SPECIFICATION

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.

General Project Guidelines

• App conforms to common standards found in the Android Nanodegree General Project Guidelines.