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Popular-Movies2

This product uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb.

This is the second project in Udacity Android Nanodegree course purely for educational purposes

Stage 2: Trailers, Reviews, and Favorites

User Experience In this stage you’ll add additional functionality to the app you built in Stage 1.

You’ll add more information to your movie details view:

Your app will:

  • You’ll allow users to view and play trailers ( either in the youtube app or a web browser).
  • You’ll allow users to read reviews of a selected movie.
  • You’ll also allow users to mark a movie as a favorite in the details view by tapping a button(star). This is for a local movies collection that you will maintain and does not require an API request*.
  • You’ll modify the existing sorting criteria for the main view to include an additional pivot to show their favorites collection.

Specifications:

  • App is written solely in the Java Programming Language.

  • Movies are displayed in the main layout via a grid of their corresponding movie poster thumbnails.

  • UI contains an element (i.e a spinner or settings menu) to toggle the sort order of the movies by: most popular, highest rated.

  • UI contains a screen for displaying the details for a selected movie.

  • Movie details layout contains title, release date, movie poster, vote average, and plot synopsis.

  • App utilizes stable release versions of all libraries, Gradle, and Android Studio.

Kindly note that you will need an API Key from TMDB.org. in order to build and try this application

Add the following line to [USER_HOME]/.gradle/gradle.properties

For Windows OS, example for Denis user:

C:\Users\Denis\.gradle

find the gradle.properties file and write in it :

myTMDBApiKey="<YOUR-API-KEY>"