Android Developer Nanodegree Popular Movies Stage 2 App

This is the Stage 2 of the Popular Movies App.
This app helps users discover popular and recent movies.
It requests the data from Internet on MoviesDB API and this ensures data is latest and updated.

• Android Architecture Components

  • ViewModel
  • LiveData
  • Repository
  • Room Database

• Retrofit ( A type-safe HTTP client )

• Picasso ( A powerful image downloading and caching library )

• Stetho ( A debugging library for Android applications )

• Scrolling Activity

• Material Design

• JSON Parsing

• RecyclerView with ViewHolder

• As the app launches, Home screen with movie posters arranged in a grid appears to the user.
• Select the category (popular, top rated and favorites) of movie list from Home screen settings menu on top-right.
• As user taps a movie, the movie detail screen opens with detailed information such as: original title, plot synopsis, user rating, release date
• You can mark a movie your favorite from the detail screen, it will be added to your favorite list
• This app works in offline mode as well. All your favorite movies can be seen in offline mode.
• Select the 'favorite' category from the menu option on top right at Home Screen in online as well as offline mode.
• On the detail screen you can watch various movie trailers as well as the movie reviews.

• This app fetches movies data from www.themoviedb.org which needs API Key.
• You need to generate your own API Key to use this app.
• To obtain an API Key, Go to www.themoviedb.org and sign up, you get your API Key generated.
• Replace the API Key in the strings.xml under values folder, replace the string value with name "api_key".