A social media app built with Kotlin (Android Studio) with multiple features

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▷ Screenshots:

▷ Features:

• Sign up using Firebase Authentication & save user data to Firebase Database.
• Sign in using Firebase.
• Create profile.
• Account setting.
• Search users.
• Follow and Unfollow users on Search Fragment.
• Navigate user from Search Page to searched user Profile.
• Allow an Online user to Edit Account Info.
• Upload image to Firebase Storage & Firebase Database and Retrieve & Display.
• Upload new post picture.
• User Timeline.
• Likes and Total Number of Likes.
• Add Comments on Pictures.
• Retrieve and Display Comments & Total Number of Comments.
• Display user Own Posts on User's Profile Page.
• Navigate user to Post Details Fragment from Profile Fragment.
• Display Total Number of Posts & Allow user Save Photos to Collection on Profile.
• Display user Saved Images Collection on user Profile.
• Display Followings List, Followers List and Picture Likes.
• Add anf Display Notifications for Likes, Comments & Followings.
• Upload Stories.
• Implement Story Features - Next Story, Previous Sory, Display Viewed by People.
• Manage UI for Already Seen Stories & for New Stories.

▷ About Application:

▷ Create an android app like instagram

▷ Tools Used In this Project:

• Android Studio;
• Firebase:
  • Realtime database
  • Authentication
  • Storage

▷ Libraries Used In this Project:

• com.theartofdev.edmodo:android-image-cropper:2.8.0
• com.github.shts:StoriesProgressView:3.0.0
• com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.71828
• de.hdodenhof:circleimageview:3.1.0

PS: If you're going to download the full project please use your on firebase API, the one in the project will NOT be mantained and the app may not work.

▷ Installation:

1. Setup Android Studio & Kotlin

2. Clone the repo

• !!!!IMPORTANT!!!! Change the Package Name. You can check how to do that here (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16804093/android-studio-rename-package)
  

3. Setup the firebase app

• You'll need to create a Firebase instance. Follow the instructions at https://console.firebase.google.com.
• Once your Firebase instance is created, you'll need to enable Google authentication.

• Go to the Firebase Console for your new instance.
• Click "Authentication" in the left-hand menu
• Click the "sign-in method" tab
• Click "Email and Password" and enable it
• Create an app within your Firebase instance for Android, with package name com.yourcompany.news
• Follow instructions to download google-services.json
• place google-services.json into /android/app/.
• Create an app within your Firebase instance for Android, with your app package name

• You can also use my firebase if you wish!

▷ Author(s): F.O.G_ntp