Ssup : Android Chat Application using Android Studio and Firebase.

Getting Started with Your Own App:

• Open Android Studio.

• Create a new project.

• Create a new project in Firebase. .

• Connect your Android Studio Project with the Firebase. Your build.gradle(app) should have these included:

   implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:16.0.5'
   implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-database:16.0.4'
   implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-storage:16.0.4'
   implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:17.3.4'
   implementation 'com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-database:4.2.1'
  

• Create a real time database in your firebase project. Structure of my database:

• After being done with the front end development, it's time to implement push notifications onto the app. Notifications in this project is being implemented using Firebase cloud functions(using javascript).

• To push the javascript to the cloud functions, install node.js.

• Open node.js command prompt and install firebase tools. npm install -g firebase-tools

• Login to firebase in the command prompt. firebase login

• Create a folder and inside that folder, initialize the firebase. firebase init

• Add the javascript code for getting push notification for messages on the device in index.js file and deploy it to the firebase cloud function. firebase deploy

Key Features:

• Login via email or phone number, set user name, status and a profile picture.
• Send chat requests to your friends.
• You can now send messages, images or files to your friends.
• Delete for me/Delete for everyone feature included.
• Group chat feature available.
• Get notification on your device when someone sends you a message or a chat request.

Some useful links:

• https://github.com/hdodenhof/CircleImageView
• https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/android/phone-auth
• https://github.com/ArthurHub/Android-Image-Cropper
• http://square.github.io/picasso/