kangah-codes / purple

Budget Mobile App

Purple

Purple is a budget and expense tracker mobile app I'm currently building for personal use. I was inspired to build Purple because after I made the switch to Android, I couldn't find a budget app that I liked. I wanted something simple, clean, and easy to use, which was hard to find on Android. So I decided to build my own, and to use this as an opportunity to further polish my React Native skills.

Inspiration for the design was taken from here.

Supported Platforms

Since I'm primarily an android user, Android is my primary target, however since React Native is cross-platform the app should work fairly well on iOS devices as well, however I'm not so worried about optimising for certain iOS devices like the phones without a notch or dynamic islands (8 series and below).

For now Purple is going to work exclusively offline, probably going to use sqlite3 for handling local database operations, once I figure out which direction this project is gonna go I may consider building a backend to allow for online syncing.

Sample Screens

Here are a few screenshots of the app so far:

Building the app

Since this application uses the expo-sdk and is built with React Native, building the app is fairly simple. You can follow the steps below to build the app:

• Clone the repository
• cd into the project directory
• Run yarn install to install all the dependencies
• To build for Android, you have to have your Android development environment set up
  • Run eas build -p android --profile preview --local --output purple.apk to build the app for an android target OR you can use the GitHub action provided which builds the apk and creates a new release for it, so you can just download the .apk file directly from GitHub.

Roadmap

Right now, Purple is still just a pet project, I'm not entirely sure I have the direction I want to take it in. But I do have a few ideas in mind:

• Online accounts sync
• Golang backend??
• Web Version?
• Integration with bank/mobile money services for automatic expense tracking
• D4RK M0D3 🌚

Contributing

I'm not currently looking for contributors since Purple is still in very early stages, but if you have any ideas or suggestions, feel free to open an issue.