An app to allow users to discover the most popular movies playing.

This application demonstrates understanding of the fundamental elements of programming for Android. Application will communicate with the Internet and provide a responsive and delightful user expericence.

This app will:

• Present the user with a grid arrangement of movie posters upon lunch.
• Allow your user to change sort order via a setting:
  • The sort order can be by most popular or by highest-rated
• Allow the user to tap on a movie poster and transition to a details screen with additional information such as:
  • original title
  • movie poster image thumbnail
  • A plot synopsis (called overview in the api)
  • user rating (called vote_average in the api)
  • release date

The Service

API, that I will be using in this app MovieDB. Fetch the data from the Internet with the MovidDB API, use adapters and custom list layouts to populate list views.

Configuration

To set the API key, please refer to gradle.properties file and add the key in API_KEY placeholder which is configured in build.gradle to be used on the project. Please signup to get the API key. Signup link: https://www.themoviedb.org/

Libraries

• Retrofit 2 (service calls)
• RxJava 2 (reactive programming)
• Gson (JSON parsing)
• ButterKnife (view binding)
• Dagger (dependency injection)

Credits

• Icons are downloaded from ICONFINDER. Creative Commons License

Screenshots