Bluechat is an instant messaging cross-platform app built with flutter and Google Firebase. Firebase cloud Firestore hosts the app data in a document database. Firebase auth is used to provide user authentication. Firebase Storage is used to host file storage for the app files like pictures etc.
###Sign Up Screen
###Create Profile Screen
###Chats Page
###Navigation Drawer
###Sign In Screen
###Chats Page
The Firebase core plugin connects the app to a firebase project.
This flutter package enables the app to use the authentication methods provided by the Firebase Authentication API such as email and password sign in.
This flutter package enables usage of the NoSQL, live-updated database provided by firebase.
Flutter plugin for Firebase Cloud Storage, a powerful, simple, and cost-effective object storage service for Android and iOS.
Used to manage state across widgets in the app. Essentially a wrapper around the flutter inheritedWidget to make it easier to use.
An SVG rendering and widget library for Flutter, which allows painting and displaying Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 files
A package for showing highly customizable snackbars.
Flutter plugin for selecting images from the Android and iOS image library, and taking new pictures with the camera.
The app uses streams to listen to firebase collections and documents and updates the UI immediately there is a new document written to the database. The new document writes are messages one user sends to the other and each user builds a message widget containing the message content when the stream emits new data. The widgets are built with the use of a streambuilder widget which accepts a stream and builds the message widget.
The app can be run on both android and ios platforms. On android, a minimum sdk level 21 (android 5.0) is requires to run the app. On ios, a minimum of ios 8 is requires.
To run the project, clone the repository and run flutter pub get to get the dependencies. You also have to register the app to your own firebase project, if you want to have access to and run it with your own database.
A non-exhaustive list of pending features include:
- Adding a time stamp to the message widget
- Improving the UI of the authentication screens
- Improving the UI of the chatscreens
- Adding a settings screen
- Adding an imageview for the avatars
- Enable users to navigate to their profile pae from the app drawer
- Enable users to add others with their phone numbers
- Proper handling of potential errors from authentication
- Adding file sharing support
To make a contribution, just make a pull-request.
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