KotlinYouTube

KotlinYouTube is an Android mobile application that renders hit music videos by parsing JSON through YouTube Data API.

Features & Functionalities

Home

• Users to sign in with email and password to view the home page (Email: [email protected], Password: 123456)
• Fetch videos from a YouTube video playlist, display thumbnail image, video title, channel profile image, channel name, and published time from the network through YouTube Data API
• Swipe to refresh the video playlist
• Users to enter search term and filter videos in the playlist, search terms will be highlighted in blue
• Click on favorite button in the video list to add videos to favorite list collection
• Click on star button (upper right corner) to see real-time favorite list, click favorite button to remove videos from the list
• Click on the video thumbnail to redirect to one video view

One Video

• Fetch and display video title (ellipsize in the action bar), video, number views, published time, number of likes, dislikes and comments from the network through YouTube Data API
• Click on the YouTubePlayerView to play video (if video is not available in the app, then user can view videos on YouTube web page, see the following step)
• Click on the YouTube search icon (upper right corner) to redirect to a WebView (the real YouTube web page)
• Click on chevron button to expand or fold description text view
• Click on the up next video thumbnail and redirect to the YouTube web page
• Show content in a ScrollView

API

• YouTube Data API - basic concepts of YouTube and of the API itself
• Top 50 This Week & Top 100 Songs 2021 - Best New Music Hits Playlist

Data

• JSON - JavaScript Object Notation is an open standard file format
• Json Parser Online - featuring tree view and syntax highlighting

Technology

Platform

• Android Studio - the official integrated development environment for Google's Android operating system

Language

• Kotlin - a cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose programming language with type inference

Libraries

• Firebase - a platform developed by Google for creating mobile and web applications
• Retrofit - turns HTTP API into a Java interface
• OkHttp - an HTTP client for Android and Java applications
• Gson - provides a powerful framework for converting between JSON strings and Java objects
• Picasso - allows for hassle-free image loading in application
• CircleImageView - a fast circular ImageView perfect for profile images