Features

Posts:

• user can create standard account or login with google.
• user can reset his pass using email.
• authentications on all the user inputs.
• user can crop and post a photo with caption.
• user can upload a story (photo - video) and it will be visible only for 24 hours.
• user can see all the views on his story with time.
• user can follow and chat other users also he can view the list of followers or following.
• user can save or hide any post from his following people posts.
• user can search for any user and have search history.
• user have notifications page that have any notification like if another user liked or commented on his photo.
• user can edit all his profile data and also can set his profile private or not.
• user have mobile notification for every message received or event happen.

Chat:

• user can have one-to-one chat or a group chat.
• user can delete or hide any chat and also he can request from the second user to both delete the chat permanently and the second user will notify with that.
• user can send (text - video - photo - documents - voice chat) messages.
• user can save sent videos or photos on his device.
• user can reply on messages like whatsApp and he can delete the message ( before 24 hours from sending it).
• user can edit a textMessage once but the message will appear as edited and the original message can be viewed.
• user can forward any message and it will appear as forwarded.
• user can react with emoji on any message and can copy any text message.
• user have a list of chat theme to select from it.
• for group chat it has the same functions like normal chat but the admin can add or remove members or change the group details.
• offline access to your chat.

Screenshots:

How to install:

• Download the project and connect it to your firebase.
• It would be better if your project is (Blaze plan) because the project uses functions and you need to upload this code.

const functions = require("firebase-functions");
const admin = require('firebase-admin');
admin.initializeApp(functions.config().firestore);
exports.scheduledFunction = functions.pubsub.schedule('every 30 minutes').onRun((context) => {
    // current time in miilis
    const timeMillis = admin.firestore.Timestamp.now().toMillis();
    console.log(timeMillis);
    admin.firestore().collection('Stories').where('expiryDate', '<=', timeMillis).get()
        .then((snapshot) => {
            snapshot.docs.forEach((data) => {
                console.log("Name: " + data.get('username'));
                console.log("ID: " + data.get('id'));
                console.log("UID: " + data.get('uid'));
                admin.firestore().collection('Stories').doc(data.id).delete();
            });
        }).catch((error) => {
            console.log("Error: " + error);
        });

    return null;
});
exports.onStoryUpload = functions.firestore.document('Stories/{storyID}')
    .onCreate((snapshot, context) => {
        var data = snapshot.data();
        const timeMillis = admin.firestore.Timestamp.now().toMillis();
        const expiryDate = timeMillis + (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
        admin.firestore().collection('Stories').doc(data.id).update({
            "expiryDate": expiryDate,
        });
    });

• If your plan is spark the project will work fine except that the users stories will be always available not only for 24 hours.

Technologies & Open-source libraries

• Kotlin mainly, Coroutines together with Flow.

• Firebase mainly used in this project:

  • Authentication
  • Firestore
  • Storage
  • FCM
  • Functions

• Dependency injection (Dagger Hilt).

• Retrofit A type-safe HTTP client.

• SDP to support different screen sizes.

  • Architecture
    • MVVM (model view view-model).
    • reposittory pattern.

• Material design components

• JetPack:

  • Lifecycle

  • ViewModel

  • ViewBinding

  • Navigation Component

  • Palette

  • Swipe-to-reply for whatsApp swipe function.

  • Touch-Imageview to zoom in photos.

  • records-player for a simple record player.

  • voice-message-recorder for a recoder layout like whatsApp.

  • video-trimmer to trim video before uploading it.

  • image-cropper to crop image befor uploading it.

  • Glide very easy library to load images or thumnails.

  • Dexter to ask for permissions.

  • Circular-imageView which support border on images.

  • Alert_dialog with animations.

  • Instagram_progreeBar.