InMovies

Browse through your favorite Movies.

A simple Android Application that uses The Movie Db to show - now playing, popular movies and search for specific movie.

Tech Stack

• JAVA

• JetPack

  Jetpack is a suite of libraries to help developers follow best practices, reduce boilerplate code, and write code that works consistently across Android versions and devices so that developers can focus on the code they care about.

  • LiveData
    • Life cycle aware observable, ensures that we don't need to update the UI every time app data changes.
  • ViewModel
    • To outlive the persistance of data over short lived life cycle of fragments or activity
  • Room
    • Object Relational Mapping to facilitate database handling - maps database objects to JAVA objects
    • abstraction layer over SQLite

• Architecture

  • MVVM architecture (Model View, ViewModel)
    • removes tight coupling between each component
    • separates the Business logic from the UI components
  • Repository Pattern
    • creating data layer agnostic apps: UI components does not know where the data comes from
    • facilitates multiple data source (both remote and local)

• Retrofit2

  • turns HTTP API to JAVA interface
  • uses OkHttp to handle API calls
  • GSON JSON adapter

• Glide

  • for loading images

• RxJAVA

  • to make API calls/ database query
  • facilitates asynchronous and event based programming

Features

• Bookmark specific movie
• Using deeplink to get details of specific movie
• Share movies
• Search for specific movie - updating the result as the user types
• Display bookmarks
• Repository Pattern
• Uses ViewModels to store UI state
• Uses RxJAVA for making calls to db and network