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+The app uses an API key from www.tmdb.org
+You will need to create an account to acquire an API key yourself.
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+The API key should go into the MoviesAsyncTaskLoader as that is the only place where the API key is used.
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+Look at line 51 where it needs to be inserted instead of the text [insert API key here].
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+I haven't specified the key as a static variable as it's generally bad practice for security reasons to store private keys in either static fields or the Strings.xml for instance.
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