🎬 MovieApp

A sample Android Movie application showcasing DataBinding, MVVM + LiveData, RxJava3, Retrofit, Glide, and Paging architecture in Java.

---

📱 Screenshots

Home (Popular Movies)

Movie Details

📌 screenshots app.

---

🚀 Features

• Browse Popular, Top-Rated, and Trending movies
• Search movies by title
• Detailed movie pages including cast, reviews, trailers
• Favorite movies stored locally
• Paginated list using Paging library
• Image loading via Glide
• Responsive UI with DataBinding and LiveData

---

🧱 Architecture & Tech Stack

• Java + Android SDK
• MVVM pattern with LiveData / ViewModel
• DataBinding for seamless UI binding
• RxJava3 for reactive streams
• Networking: Retrofit + OkHttp
• UI image loading: Glide
• Paging for efficient list performance
• Optional local persistence using Room or SharedPreferences

---

🛠 Setup & Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/sonpxp/MovieApp.git

2. Open in Android Studio

3. Add your TMDB API Key in gradle.properties or your own config file

4. Sync and build the project

5. Run on device/emulator

---

📂 Project Structure

• ui/: Activities & Fragments
• viewmodel/: LiveData ViewModels
• repository/: Data handling via Retrofit
• model/: Java data classes
• binding/: XML layouts with DataBinding
• utils/: Common utilities and adapters

---

🧩 Dependencies Highlights

implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel'
implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-livedata'
implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson'
implementation 'io.reactivex.rxjava3:rxjava'
implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit'
implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide'
implementation 'androidx.paging:paging-runtime'

---

❤️ Why this project?

This project is a hands-on example for combining core Android Jetpack libraries and RxJava in Java, showing how to build a modern, scalable Movie app with clean architecture, pagination, and smooth UI.

---

🧪 Want to Contribute?

Feel free to open issues or send pull requests. Some enhancement ideas:

• Add Room support to cache favorite movies
• Implement Hilt or Dagger for Dependency Injection
• Improve UI with Material Components
• Add unit and UI tests

---

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

---

👤 Author

Developed by @sonpxp — open to collaborations on Android, MVVM, RxJava, and more.

Check out more of my work at github.com/sonpxp