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Uncle Ben's Popular Movies Database (Stage 2)

To reviewers and potential users

Please add your TMDb API key in gradle.properties: TmdbApiKey="your_api_key"

Screenshots

Navigation Drawer & movie grid:

Movie details with trailer previews and search:

Favorites with sorting and swipe-to-delete functionality:

Settings

Features

User Interface

  • Choose between most popular and highest rated movies
  • 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.
    • contains title, release date, movie poster, vote average, and plot synopsis.
    • section for displaying trailer videos and user reviews.
    • user can tap a button to mark it as a Favorite.

Network / Threading / Background Threads

  • UI gets populated after data was loaded with Loader in background task
  • Queries the /movie/popular or /movie/top_rated API for the sort criteria specified in the settings menu.
  • Requests related videos for a selected movie via the /movie/{id}/videos endpoint.
  • Requests user reviews for a selected movie via the /movie/{id}/reviews endpoint.

Data persistence

  • Titles and IDs of the user’s favorite movies are stored in a native SQLite database and are exposed via a ContentProvider.
  • Saving instance state on rotation (implemented with ViewModel from android.arch.lifecycle)

Additional features (not required)

  • Navigation Drawer
  • Endless scrolling for movies from web source (automatic loading of more pages on background thread)
  • Storing additional information about favorites to allow sorting by title, release date or timestamp when favorite has been added.
    • Re-selecting the same sorting reverses the order.
  • Swipe to remove favorite
  • Selecting a favorite from Favorites downloads the movie details in a background thread from TMDb's /movie endpoint by id (no movie data that could change is stored in SQLite database for a favorite)
  • Loading additional data in multiple Loader background threads for movie details (each content getting populated in UI as soon as possible):
    • Youtube trailer thumbnails (parsed from downloaded JSON from oEmbed-endpoint at "youtube.com/oembed")
    • additional movie information (imdb id for link to IMDb page, runtime, budget, genres).
  • Settings
    • Language for movie data
    • JSON parsing engine (Google Gson or "bare hands")
  • Search movie on other web services (Rottom Tomatoes, Amazon, Google, IMDb, Youtube)