Pals

What is the project? -An innovative messaging application designed to link up with your friends seamlessly

What is the MVP ? - The minimum viable product (MVP) is a chat application capable of sending and receiving messages by utilizing Firebase to perform database calls.

What are the sprinkles? - The sprinkles encompass various tasks such as app styling, animation integration, and user profile updates, among others.

Live demo Pals.

Table of Contents

• General Info
• Built with
• Features
• The Challenge
• Screenshots
• Room for Improvement
• Acknowledgements
• Contact

General Information

• The objective of this project is to enable real-time messaging by leveraging the capabilities of Firebase.

Built with

• Kotlin - First class and official programming language for Android development.
• Coroutines - For asynchronous and more..
• Android Architecture Components - Collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and maintainable apps.
  • Flow - A flow is an asynchronous version of a Sequence, a type of collection whose values are lazily produced.
  • ViewModel - Stores UI-related data that isn't destroyed on UI changes.
  • Room - SQLite object mapping library.
  • Jetpack Navigation - Navigation refers to the interactions that allow users to navigate across, into, and back out from the different pieces of content within your app
• Material Components for Android - Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for Android.
• Picasso - A powerful image downloading and caching library for Android
• Retofit - A type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java.
• Firebase - An app development platform that helps you build and grow apps.
• Dagger-Hilt - A standard way to incorporate Dagger dependency injection into an Android application.

The Challenge

Users should be able to

• Create an account, Sign in / Sign out
• View list of available contacts
• Update Profile
• Send and Receive messages.
• Upload and view status

Features

• Google Sign in/ Sign out Authentication
• Light/dark mode toggle
• Firebase database
• Navigations (Fragments)
• Display messages

Screenshots

Room for Improvement

• Video and Audio Calls
• Deleting Conversations
• Language Set-Up

Acknowledgements

• Chip Navigation Bar
• Circular View

Contact

Created by Okolo - feel free to contact me!