Flix Part 2

User Stories

REQUIRED (10pts)

• (8pts) Expose details of movie (ratings using RatingBar, popularity, and synopsis) in a separate activity.
• (2pts) Allow video posts to be played in full-screen using the YouTubePlayerView.

BONUS

• Trailers for popular movies are played automatically when the movie is selected (1 point).
  • When clicking on a popular movie (i.e. a movie voted for more than 5 stars) the video should be played immediately.
  • Less popular videos rely on the detailed page should show an image preview that can initiate playing a YouTube video.
• Add a play icon overlay to popular movies to indicate that the movie can be played (1 point).
• Apply the popular ButterKnife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate. (1 point)
• Add a rounded corners for the images using the Glide transformations. (1 point)

App Walkthough GIF

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

Open-source libraries used

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android