Inspiration
What made me interested in making this app was this course I am currently taking by codepath.org on android app development.
What it does
This app allows the user to see which movies are playing on theaters. The app shows displays the title, trailer, rating and much more in a friendly user interface.
How we built it
I used the codepath API for the list of movies, the YouTube API for playing the trailers, and integrated the main design in a recyclerview as the main layout. I built the app in Android Studio, which provides a lot of great tools to ease the process of coding.
Challenges we ran into
One trivial challenge for me was to trying to make the pageview that displays at the top of the app once it is opened. The biggest challenge was to initialize another class and layout when clicking the floating button. Another challenge was the nested scrollview for the user to be able to scroll down for the recyclerview and scroll sideways for the top part
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Great improvement in UI design, especially after achieving adding the pager view, which displays the movies at the top and plays the trailer in landscape mode by default when clicked. Successful integration of Youtube API
What we learned
I learned to use client APIs, inflate views,
What's next for Flixter App
Adding a "NOW PLAYING" based on the date the movie was released when compared to current date. Call google maps API to show user closest movie theater.
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