Pocket cinema v4
The release addresses these issues.
Welcome to Iteration No. 4 release.
In this release, we focused mainly on making the application user friendly and completely bug free.
There are updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include:
- Trailer page - We've added a new trailer page for movies and series
- Removing media from personal lists - Possibility to remove media from personal lists and to delete personal lists.
- Empty state illustrations - When a list content is empty, an illustration will be displayed so the screen isn't left blank.
- UX improvements - We've made some other small changes that make the user experience better
- UI improvements - We've made some small changes to make the app interface look better
- Bugfixes - Fixed some bugs that made the user experience worse
Trailer page
- Our trailer page is way better now! There you can find the release date of the movie / series, add it to a list or even watch more trailers.
- In the media page, a button to watch the trailer was added. When you click it, you are redirected to the trailer page.
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Removing media from personal lists
- Now, when you add a media to a list, there is a checkbox that allows you to remove the media from the list.
- For every list, in the list page, there is a delete icon for each media that allows you to remove the media from the list.
- To allow deleting the list, there is now also a delete icon for each list.
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Empty state illustrations
- If the to watch list is empty, we show an illustration and a button to encourage the user to add media to the list.
- When no lists have yet been created by the user, we show an empty state illustration.
UX (User Experience) Improvements
User Experience (UX) design enhances user satisfaction and drives customer loyalty, leading to increased retention and positive word-of-mouth. Because of this we have improved in many aspects.
- Now, clicking in the whole trailer card, and not just the image, redirects to the corespondent media page.
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- Every button has its tool tip helping the user to always know what it is used for.
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- A shimmer effect was added when loading the content in the search page, such as the trailers.
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- Made the creating list text field fixed and more clear.
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- Lists are now correctly refreshed when media is removed from the media page.
UI (User Interface) Improvements
To make sure our app ensures seamless navigation and a delightful user experience we have improved some UI aspects.
- We have change the snackbars to toast messages, as they provided a more elegant look.
- The comment design was improved, it's now easy to differentiate the different sections. (username, comment text and date)
- The media rating design is now more simple.
- When an error occurr a nice error looking was created to be displayed.
- Images had been updated with a placeholder displayed when loading.
- Similar, a default background for media page is placed if no other is found.
- We added our logo and name to the top of the screen at home and user space pages.
- Empty lists card design have been changed.
Bug Fixes
Here is a list of some bugs that were fixed:
- Fixed a bug where the media list page would not refresh when media was removed from it
- Fixed a bug where the media list page would overflow on some phone resolutions
- Fixed a bug where the rating number would appear as null from media that were not aired yet
- Fixed a bug where a user would have to click the back button twice to leave the trailer full screen
- Fixed a bug where after logging out and logging in to another account, the user would still see the lists from the logged out account
- Fixed a bug where if a user logs in and immediately moves to the user space page, there would be a user not logged in error