Flutter Firebase Chat is a cross-platform application made with flutter that allows you to chat in real time with all registered users.
- Chat in real time.
- Supports text, photos, images and audios.
- Supports emojis.
- Delete messages individually by swiping.
- Delete all messages from a chat.
- Delete a chat entirely.
- Change your user information.
- Dark mode.
- Simplified login.
Flutter Firebase Chat uses Provider as the state manager. Why? Because it is a simple and clean way to manage the state of your application. It makes use of the InheritedWidget, which is how most state managers work in Flutter. Also, it is recommended by Flutter.
NOTE: It is likely that in the future I will create a version of the chat using GetX to compare certain points, such as speed of the application and speed of implementation.
Flutter Firebase Chat obviously requires a Firebase account. You just need to include the google-services.json file in android/app/ folder and run the application. You can follow these steps.
- Create a project in Firebase with the name you prefer. You can also use an existing project.
- Add an Android application to the project. It will ask you to insert the ID of the application. The default id is
com.example.flutter_firebase_chat. You can change itin android/app/build.gradleby replacingapplicationId "com.example.flutter_firebase_chat". - Enter a name for your application (this step is optional).
- Insert a SHA-1 signing certificate (this step is optional).
- Click on "Register app"
- Download the file
google-services.jsonand copy it toandroid/app/. Make sure the file has the correct name. - Step 3, to add the Firebase SDK, should not be necessary as it is implemented in code. However, it is worth checking it out just in case.
- Finish with the process and voila, you will have your application associated with your Firebase project.
I do not include my own google-services.json file in the repository because it is important that you add yours manually. This way you will have access to the list of users, database and files.
Enable email authentication, create your database in Firestore and the container in Storage in your Firebase console.
Flutter Firebase Chat is currently extended with the following plugins. Instructions on how to use them in your own application are linked below.
| Plugin | pub.dev |
|---|---|
| email_validator | https://pub.dev/packages/email_validator |
| provider | https://pub.dev/packages/provider |
| image_picker | https://pub.dev/packages/image_picker |
| intl | https://pub.dev/packages/intl |
| hive | https://pub.dev/packages/hive |
| audioplayers | https://pub.dev/packages/audioplayers |
| flutter_audio_recorder | https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_audio_recorder |
| path_provider | https://pub.dev/packages/path_provider |
| flutter_svg | https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_svg |
| firebase_core | https://pub.dev/packages/firebase_core |
| firebase_auth | https://pub.dev/packages/firebase_auth |
| cloud_firestore | https://pub.dev/packages/cloud_firestore |
| firebase_storage | https://pub.dev/packages/firebase_storage |
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