- This application consumes the TMDB API.
- On the first fragment, the app displays top-rated, upcoming and movies now playing in horizontal recyclerviews.
- The top-rated movies are paginated (endless scrolling).
- On clicking the movie thumbnail, the app also displays the characters, and movies you'd like, based on the current movie.
- There is also a search movies feature.
- A user is also able to add movies to favorites database.
- On the favorites' screen, swipe to delete is enabled.
- Kotlin - First class and official programming language for Android development.
- Coroutines - To improve performance and overall user experience.
- Android Architecture Components - Collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and maintainable apps.
- LiveData - Data objects that notify views when the underlying database changes.
- ViewModel - Stores UI-related data that isn't destroyed on UI changes.
- ViewBinding - Generates a binding class for each XML layout file present in that module and allows you to more easily write code that interacts with views.
- Jetpack navigation - Navigation component helps you implement navigation, from simple button clicks to more complex patterns, such as app bars and the navigation drawer.
- Dagger-Hilt For Dependency injection (DI)
- Room database - Persistence library provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.
- Material Components for Android - Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for Android.
- Coil - An image loading library backed by Kotlin Coroutines.
- Paging 3 - The Paging library helps you load and display pages of data from a larger dataset from local storage or over network.
- Shimmer Loading Effect - An easy, flexible way to add a shimmering effect to any view in an Android app.
- Retrofit - To make network calls.
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