Andorid Barter App - Sample Project

Prerequesites:

• Java 11
• Android Studio
• google-services.json in app-level folder (Get it by creating account at firebase)
• Populate Google Maps API key in res/values/google_maps_api.xml

Features

• Google authentitcation
• User can add photos of items to users inventory with location
• User can browse other users' inventories which are marked on map
• User can start a conversation with any user found on map.

Extenal APIs:

• Firebase Storage (Storing photos)
• Firebase Realtime Database (Messaging & Users data)
• Google Maps API (Presenting data on map)

Libraries

• Google Play services
• Firebase libraires to use firebase API
• Glide to upload & download photos from firestore with automatic caching (see https://github.com/bumptech/glide)
• CircleImageView to show avatars (see https://github.com/hdodenhof/CircleImageView)
• PingPlacePicker to create a place picker (see https://github.com/rtchagas/pingplacepicker)

Build & Run

1. Clone a project from github
2. Create android emulator or use real device
3. Populate Google Maps API key in res/values/google_maps_api.xml
4. Add google-services.json in app-level folder
5. Run application (At this point you are ready to build and run the application on your real device or emulator (with google services).)

Example photos