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Welcome to the SimilarMovies Wiki!

This App is still in its initial testing period. Please read the complete description & any feedback is encouraged.

This started out as a way to establish a simple way to look for similar movies. RottenTomatoes™ was chosen as the data source for their public API. No movie-matching is calculated in the App itself, the RottenTomatoes™API is used to fetch all data. An API call is made to RottenTomatoes™, with the entered movie. If this name is ambiguous, an initial list of movies is displayed for the user make their selection from & then a list of movies similar to this selection is displayed as a list on screen.

Known Limitations:

• As this is a public API, there are rate limits. Rates at the time of publishing are limited to 5 API calls per second and 10,000 calls per day.
• Newer movies may not yield any results, this is dependent on RottenTomatoes™ updating their databases.

This is an open source project browsable on GitHub (github.com/InViN/SimilarMovies). Feel free to e-mail me with feature requests, bug reports or any general suggestions.

Planned Updates:

• Overhaul UI
• Implement a workaround on API limits
• Get current API limits & calls
• Provide better end user experience
• Add settings - Theme
• Find Similar Movies infinitely (Maybe)

Bugs:

• [Fixed] Multi-line submit crashes the App
• Legit 25+ character length movie names are not currently allowed

Fixes:

• Enter as Send Key enabled

Disclaimer:

• I am not affiliated with RottenTomatoes™ in any way.
• All results shown on screen depend on data returned by RottenTomatoes™
• Nothing is stored locally or transmitted otherwise
• A search history is not maintained.