Movie Database App

Overview

The Movie Database App is an Android application that displays a list of movies with their details such as title, year, genre, and poster. The app allows users to toggle the visibility of movies with missing information.

Features

• Display a list of movies with title, year, genre, and poster.
• Toggle visibility of movies with missing information.
• Load movie data from a JSON file stored in the assets folder.
• Gracefully handles missing or mis-formatted data in the json file.

Project Structure

• app/src/main/java/com/main/moviedatabase/

  • MainActivity.java: The main activity that initializes the UI and handles user interactions.
  • Movie.java: A model class representing a movie.
  • MovieAdapter.java: An adapter class for binding movie data to the RecyclerView.
  • MovieLoading.java: A class for loading and parsing movie data from a JSON file.

• app/src/main/res/layout/

  • activity_main.xml: Layout file for the main activity.
  • movie_item.xml: Layout file for individual movie items in the RecyclerView.

• app/src/main/res/values/

  • colors.xml: Defines color resources used in the app.
  • themes.xml: Defines the app's theme.

• app/src/main/res/drawable/

  • ic_launcher_background.xml: Background vector drawable for the app icon.
  • ic_launcher_foreground_alt.xml: Foreground vector drawable for the app icon.

• app/src/main/assets/

  • movies.json: JSON file containing movie data.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/hamidurrk/movie-database-app.git

2. Open the project in Android Studio.
3. Build and run the app on an emulator or physical device.

Usage

1. Launch the app.
2. The main screen displays a list of movies.
3. Use the "Hide Empty" switch to toggle the visibility of movies with missing information.

JSON Data Format

The movies.json file in the assets directory should follow this format:

[
  {
    "title": "Movie Title",
    "year": 2021,
    "genre": "Genre",
    "poster": "poster_resource_name"
  },
  ...
]

Code Explanation

MainActivity.java

• Initializes the UI components and sets up the RecyclerView.
• Handles the "Hide Empty" switch to reload movies based on the toggle state.

Movie.java

• Represents a movie with attributes: title, year, genre, and poster.
• Provides methods to get default values for missing information.

MovieAdapter.java

• Binds movie data to the RecyclerView.
• Handles the visibility of movie details based on the "Hide Empty" switch.

MovieLoading.java

• Loads and parses movie data from the movies.json file.
• Provides a method to hide movies with missing information.