sabin10 / android-blog-app

Social Network App like Instagram

Introduction

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Social Network Blog App.

Sabin Hantu, computer science student.

1st Android App, developed for learning reasons only.

What I learned

• Android concepts(activities, fragments, views).
• Recycler View.
• Communicating with a database(i.e. Firebase Firestore).
• Using 3rd party libraries(Glide, Image-Cropper, Compressor, etc.).

Functionalities

• User Authentification using Firebase Authentification with email.
• Every user has its own blog stored in Firestore.
• User's profile picture or name can be updated.
• Follow (read this blog) system implemented as a collection in Firestore for each user.
• Like system and comment fragment for each post.
• Storing images and thumbs via Firebase Storage.
• Circular Image View for profile images via CircleImageView by @hdodenhof.

Screenshots