Rotten-Tomatoes

This is a movies app displaying box office and top rental DVDs using the Rotten Tomatoes API.

Time spent: 15hrs

Features

Required

• User can view a list of movies. Poster images load asynchronously.

• User can view movie details by tapping on a cell.

• User sees loading state while waiting for the API.

• User sees error message when there is a network error: cl.ly/image/1l1L3M460c3C

• User can pull to refresh the movie list.

Optional

• All images fade in.

• For the larger poster, load the low-res first and switch to high-res when complete.

• All images should be cached in memory and disk: AppDelegate has an instance of NSURLCache and NSURLRequest makes a request with NSURLRequestReturnCacheDataElseLoad cache policy. I tested it by turning off wifi and restarting the app.

• Customize the highlight and selection effect of the cell.

• Customize the navigation bar.

• Add a tab bar for Box Office and DVD.

• Add a search bar: pretty simple implementation of searching against the existing table view data.

• Switch between list view and grid view

Walkthrough

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