My ShopPal App

Date Developed :26/03/2022

Date Modified : 10/05/2022

Developer FullName : Seotsa Abram Makaota

Project Name : My ShopPal App

Project Purpose

To learn how to build an e-commerce app for Android using the Firestore database from Google Firebase Technology

About the app

It is an adjustable e-commerce application that you can use to create your own online store or use it as a template to create an e-commerce app for your client. In this app we are covering such topics as Firebase basics how to upload and download data to and from an online database Displaying Images from the Cloud Creating User Profiles Uploading and displaying Products Building a Cart System Selecting images from your phone

Features

This app represents 15 feature Activities and 4 feature Fragments

• Activities

1. SplashActivity
2. LoginActivity
3. ForgotPasswordActivity
4. UserProfileActivity
5. RegistrationActivity
6. DashboardActivity
7. AddProductActivity
8. ProductDetailsActivity
9. SoldProductDetailsActivity
10. OderDetailsActivity
11. CartListActivity
12. SettingsListActivity
13. AddEditAddressActivity
14. AddressListActivity
15. CheckoutActivity

• Fragments

1. DashBoardFragment
2. ProductsFragment
3. OrdersFragment
4. SoldProducts

Libraries used

• Firebase

1. Import the BoM for the Firebase platform
   implementation platform('com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:29.3.1')

2. Declare the dependency for the Cloud Firestore library
   When using the BoM, you don't specify versions in Firebase library dependencies
   implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-firestore-ktx'
   implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics-ktx'

3. Declare the dependency for the Firebase Authentication library
   When using the BoM, you don't specify versions in Firebase library dependencies
   implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth-ktx'

4. Declare the dependency for the Cloud Storage library
   When using the BoM, you don't specify versions in Firebase library dependencies
   implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-storage-ktx'

• Glide implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.13.0'
  annotationProcessor 'com.github.bumptech.glide:compiler:4.13.0'\

What I have learned

To create an Android E-Commerce Application from scratch using Google Firebase - Firestore Firebase basics, AND how to upload and download data to and from the online database, etc.
To Build MY own cloud apps with cloud storage, like Whatsapp, Instagram, or Tinder
To Build an application with Cloud Database Firebase
To build different Firebase modules, such as authentication, cloud storage, database