Flix is a movies app using the The Movie Database API.
Time spent: X hours spent in total
The following required user stories are complete:
- User sees app icon in home screen and styled launch screen (+1pt)
- User can scroll through a list of movies currently playing in theaters from The Movie DB API (+5pt)
- User can "Pull to refresh" the movie list (+2pt)
- User sees a loading state while waiting for the movies to load (+2pt)
The following stretch user stories are implemented:
- User sees an alert when there's a networking error (+1pt)
- User can search for a movie (+3pt)
- While poster is being fetched, user see's a placeholder image (+1pt)
- User sees image transition for images coming from network, not when it is loaded from cache (+1pt)
- Customize the selection effect of the cell (+1pt)
- For the large poster, load the low resolution image first and then switch to the high resolution image when complete (+2pt)
The following additional user stories are implemented:
- List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality! (+1-3pts)
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):
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
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