htk-ios-RottenTomatoes

This is a basic Rotten Tomatoes (read-only) client.

CodePath iOS Bootcamp September 2014 - Week 1 Project

GIF Screen Cap

Here's an animated GIF (made with LiceCAP) of what it looks like:

Download and Build Instructions

• Clone the repository
• Install CocoaPods
  • sudo gem install cocoapods
• Install Pods
  • pod install
• Update/initialize the hacktoolkit-ios_lib submodule (temporary step until CocoaPods supports Swift source files natively)
  • git submodule init
  • git submodule update
• Set up API keys
  • Create a secrets.xcconfig config file based on secrets.xcconfig.template
  • Obtain an API key from the Rotten Tomatoes API page and add the key to secrets.xcconfig
• Run it!

Features (User Stories)

Time spent: 15+ hours

Completed:

• User can view a list of movies from Rotten Tomatoes. Poster images must be loading asynchronously.
• User can view movie details by tapping on a cell
• User sees loading state while waiting for movies API. Using MBProgressHUD. (Other alternatives were considered among 3rd party libraries at cocoacontrols.com)
• User sees error message when there's a networking error. (Without using UIAlertView, because it is crappy). Sorta working, using TSMessages
• User can pull to refresh the movie list.

Optional user stories completed:

• All images fade in. Achieved by using UIView.animateWithDuration(...)
• For the large poster, load the low-res image first, switch to high-res when complete. Achieved by using self.fullPosterImage.setImageWithURL(NSURL(string: movie.originalPosterUrl), placeholderImage: self.movieCellSender!.thumbnailPosterImage.image)
• All images should be cached in memory and disk (in order to have images load immediately upon cold start). In progress; have an in-memory dictionary cache of url String : UIImage and need to figure out how to do that.
• Customize the highlight and selection effect of the cell. (Turned off the default)
• Customize the navigation bar. (Changed text and background colors, opacity)
• Add a tab bar for Box Office and DVD. Switches between the two using a common ViewController by embedding in Container Views. Couldn't figure out how to change the color of the tab bar.
• Add a search bar. Filters movies with titles containing the searchText substring using case insensitive search and UISearchBarDelegate