Flix is a movies app using the The Movie Database API.
Time spent: 18 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:
- List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!
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):
- How to implement gesture recognizers to play movie trailers
- Syntax: methods, headers, variable declarations
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
App icon and loading state
Scroll, pull to refresh, tap on cell for detailed view
Additional tab, collection view, tap poster for detailed view
Search bar
Alert when no wifi
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Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
Throught the videos, I followed along but didn't fully understand what I was typing. Adding extra features forced me to look through my code and figure out how view controllers were connected. Then I was able to comment my code with better details about how the parts communicated. Implementing the search bar was difficult, but talking through it with my pod and focusing on how my code worked helped me understand it better. I did not finish implementing the trailer feature and had a hard time using gesture recognizers.
List an 3rd party libraries, icons, graphics, or other assets you used in your app.
- AFNetworking - networking task library
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