Sociofy

Sociofy is a social media Android application 📱 built to demonstrate use of Modern Android development tools.

Setup

Clone the repository on your machine. Open the project on your IDE and connect it to firebase and everything will be setup

About

It uses firebase as its backend. It uses Firestore which is a NoSQL database to store all data. Firebase Storage to store images and Firebase Auth for the authentication

• Fully functionable.
• Clean and Simple Material UI.
• It supports dark theme too 🌗.

📸 Screenshots

Built With 🛠

• Kotlin - First class and official programming language for Android development.
• Coroutines - For asynchronous and more..
• Flow - A cold asynchronous data stream that sequentially emits values and completes normally or with an exception.
• Android Architecture Components - Collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and maintainable apps.
  • LiveData - Data objects that notify views when the underlying database changes.
  • ViewModel - Stores UI-related data that isn't destroyed on UI changes.
  • ViewBinding - Generates a binding class for each XML layout file present in that module and allows you to more easily write code that interacts with views.
  • DataBinding - Binds data directly into XML layouts
• Dependency Injection -
  • Hilt-Dagger - Standard library to incorporate Dagger dependency injection into an Android application.
  • Hilt-ViewModel - DI for injecting ViewModel.
• Backend - Google Firebase
  • Firebase Auth - To support email based authentication
  • Firebase Firestore - A NoSQL database to store all data
  • Firebase Storage - A clous storage to store all images
• Retrofit - A type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java.
• GSON - A modern JSON library for Kotlin and Java.
• Timber - A simple logging library for android.
• GSON Converter - A Converter which uses Moshi for serialization to and from JSON.
• Glide - An image loading library for Android backed by Kotlin Coroutines.
• Material Components for Android - Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for Android.

Package Structure

com.vaibhav.sociofy    # Root Package
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├── data                # For data handling.
│   ├── model           # Model data classes 
│   └── repository      # Single source of data.
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├── di                  # Dependency Injection             
│   └── module          # DI Modules
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├── ui                  # UI/View layer
│   ├── authorization   # Authorization Activity and its fragments
│   ├── homescreen      # Home Activity and its fragments
|   ├── profilescreen   # profile Activity and its fragments
|   ├── splashscreen    # Splash Activity
│   └── uploadscreen    # Upload Activity
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└── utils               # Utility Classes / Kotlin extensions

Architecture

This app uses MVVM (Model View View-Model) architecture.

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Contact

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Visit:- VaibhavJaiswal.io