Anby's Movies

Project Overview

Developed as part of the “Mobile Development” module (SAÉ 4 - R4.11), this project aimed to create a fully functional native Android application. The goal was to build a movie discovery tool that fetches and displays data from the public The Movie Database (TMDb) API.

The project was developed in a team of three with Samuel Antunes and Théo Phan.

Features

The application offers a complete user experience for browsing movies:

• API Integration: Real-time movie search via the TMDb API.
• Dynamic UI: Search results are displayed in a customized RecyclerView with efficient dynamic image loading for posters.
• Detailed View: A dedicated screen for each movie showing synopsis, release date, rating, and more.

Advanced Implementations

To deepen our understanding of Android development, we added several advanced features:

• Sorting: Users can sort results by popularity, rating, or release date.
• Internationalization (i18n): Full support for both English and French, depending on the device’s language settings.
• Local Persistence: Implementation of a “Favorites” feature, saving data locally on the device.

Technical Architecture

The application is built on a robust and modern technical foundation:

• Style: Utilizes Material Design 3 for a modern and consistent UI.
• Architecture: Follows the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern for clear separation of concerns.
  • Data Models: Kotlin data classes (Movie, Genre) defining the structure.
  • DAO Layer: Handles JSON deserialization from API responses.
• UI Structure: Built using a combination of Activities and Fragments for modularity (Search, List, Detail views).

Constraints & Challenges

A key constraint was ensuring compatibility with specific university laboratory machines. This required careful management of the build configuration. We had to specifically downgrade the Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) version to 8.5.2 in the libs.versions.toml file to ensure successful compilation and execution in the target environment.