Flicks is a movies app displaying box office and top rental DVDs using The Movie Database API.
Time spent: 4 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can view movie details by tapping on a cell.
- User can select from a tab bar for either Now Playing or Top Rated movies.
- Customize the selection effect of the cell.
The following optional features are implemented:
- For the large poster, load the low resolution image first and then switch to the high resolution image when complete.
- Customize the navigation bar.
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):
- I would like to discuss the process of adding a tab view in more depth.
- I would like to dicuss how you could choose the height of a UIView based on the height of it's subview (of type UILabel).
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
Figuring out to add the tab view was a little tricky.
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Flicks is a movies app made using data from the The Movie Database API.
Time spent: 4 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.
- 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):
- I would like to discuss the addTarget() method that was used to add the refresh functionality and explore more about how that method is used in different contexts.
- I also would like to talk about how you would connect a different view controller to each cell of the table view such that you coukd view details about each movie in it's own view controller.
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
The biggest challenge likely was understanding how data was added to table cells.
Copyright 2016 Thomas Clifford
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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.