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Movies

This app displays a list of movies, tv shows and actors by consuming The Movie Database (TMDb) API using Android.

Setup • Components • Scorecards • License

Setup

Requirements

• Java 8
• Latest version of Android SDK and Android Build Tools

API Key

The app uses themoviedb.org API to get movie information and posters. You must provide your own [API key] in order to build the app (or you can use mine).

Just put your API key into the app module's utils/constants file (create the file if it does not exist already):

const val TMDb_API_KEY = "abc123"

Components

• Kotlin based, Coroutines + Flow for asynchronous programming.
• Dagger Hilt for dependency injection.
• JetPack
  • DataStore
  • Room - construct a database using the abstract layer.
  • Worker - Updating data periodically when phone is idling
  • Bindables - Android DataBinding kit for notifying data changes to UI layers.

• Lifecycle - dispose of observing data when lifecycle state changes.
• ViewModel - UI related data holder, lifecycle aware.

• Architecture
  • MVVM Architecture (View - DataBinding - ViewModel - Model)
• Material 3 - Using Material Design 3
  • Navigation Drawer
  • Dark Mode Support - Generate theme trough Material Theme Builder
• Retrofit2 & OkHttp3 - construct the REST APIs and paging network data.
• Glide - loading images.
• Material-Components - Material design components like ripple animation, cardView.

Scorecards

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2022 Jonathan Areas

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