TMDBClient | popular Movies and the TV Shows

Currently learning Android programming and more specifically Kotlin (and MVVM) I was wondering how to access the TextView of my activity's layout.

Indeed, I saw that there are two very well known ways to do this, either with a findViewById() or with data binding.

I was amazed that I could change the text in a TextView by doing neither (at least that's what I think, I'm probably wrong).

You will find below the code of my activity where I modify the text of my TextView in never make a findViewById and without ever creating a binding object in the setupView() function.

I am using The Movie Database to search for movies.

1) I download the movies based on the search parameter

2) When Dequeueing the cell, I download the respective Poster

My issue is that I want to store the image in a struct's object so that I could re-use it in my app

let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "searchResult", for: indexPath) as! SearchCell

var currentMedia = AppModel.searchList[indexPath.section]

searchList holds data of type Media Model

I do see a lot of similar questions in stack-overflow, but seems no one is similar with my case. I'm new to Combine frame work, and it took me this whole afternoon to figure out what is wrong, however still stuck at here...

Xcode gives me below error, what I do is using TMDB's API and to decode it into my Actor model. And it failed on this line let result = try self.decoder.decode(TMDBActorsResult.self, from: output.data). Could you give me some hint what is going on with this adult?

ERROR: keyNotFound(CodingKeys(stringValue: "adult", intValue: nil), Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath: [CodingKeys(stringValue: "results", intValue: nil), _JSONKey(stringValue: "Index 0", intValue: 0), CodingKeys(stringValue: "knownFor", intValue: nil), _JSONKey(stringValue: "Index 0", intValue: 0)], debugDescription: "No value associated with key CodingKeys(stringValue: \"adult\", intValue: nil) (\"adult\").", underlyingError: nil))

Also I check the url is working and here is the return data from TMDB API:

/// Model for Actor

I'm trying to get a list of games using this API request. https://steamspy.com/api.php?request=top100forever

However I believe that my issue is that all games are inside another thing with just the appid. This is what the response looks like

It's been 2 days I'm trying to learn how to use the new Paging Library with the Kotlin Language (first time too)

So I've read many guide / tutorial and Github repo (https://github.com/STAR-ZERO/paging-retrofit-sample) for implementing this paging library and basically my trouble is my LiveData> inside my ViewModel is trigger before my api call is ending and I don't know why and I feel the call callback.onResult(it?.results.orEmpty(), null, 2) doesn't do anything

I'm using this version android.arch.paging:runtime:1.0.1 You can find the repo of my project here : https://github.com/florian-do/TMDB

logcat :

Almost finished this app and running into compile time error with the data binding aspect in my Movie class I've extended BaseObserver and on trying to build project I can't import BR for the notifyPropertyChanged(BR.voteCount); on a setter. I can't see the issue but if I try compile and it were to get passed that it crashes on launch with the following stack trace.

I figured if it's a problem with the generated code then how do I tinker with that???

Really puzzled! Any help appreciated.

I've added dependencies can't see no issues there....

I'm having an issue with getting access to the collectionview.tag when doing the prepare (for segue). I have tried different things but nothing is working.