Implementing Syde(An online Forum) in Flutter

in #utopian-io6 years ago

What is the project about?

Most times as developers and tech enthusiasts, we want to share our experiences; what we are building, learning, reading etc

Also as developers, we would love to Connect with other developers in the tech space. To bridge that gap, I decided to build "Syde".

Syde is a mobile application that will serve as an online tech community for developers and tech enthusiast.

Users get to sign in using Google authentication. After successful authentication, users can then navigate the features of the platform. Enlisted are made available to users.

  • Users can create a thread with their experiences and share in the community. This could be what they are working on, what they are learning. issues or anything related.
  • Users can engage in the general chat group
  • Users can view other users profile
  • Users can directly message other users
  • Users can create Todos via the platform
  • Users get notifications on tech events, jobs etc

Current log in screen

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Home screen

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Chat room screen

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Direct Messaging Screen
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Navigation Drawer
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Technology Stack

  • Android Studio
  • Flutter: Flutter is google mobile framework for building beautiful cross-platform apps
  • FireBase: Firebase will provide us with online backend functionality such database, cloud functions, authentication, real-time functionalities etc
  • SQFlite : this is flutter version of SQLite. This will enable local storage on the phone
  • RxDart : RxDart is used for reactive programming
  • BLOc pattern is used as the architectural pattern for layering the app.

IMPORTANT RESOURCES

*Github *: https://github.com/enyason/Syde

Roadmap

The screenshots above show the current state of the application. I will work towards implementing all the features as described in above. More attention would be given to the layouts and presentation of the app, to improve the user's experience. Some of the updates to expect are:

  • Searching all posts
  • Persisting user post
  • Providing different layouts
  • ToDo for users to track their daily progress
  • Push Notifications
  • Posts sharing
  • Users dashboard
  • Searching all users
  • Direct Messaging with Users
  • ChatGroup
  • Bookmarking post

How to contribute?

You can reach me by commenting on this post or send a message via enyasonjnr@gmail.com.If you want to make this application better, you can make a Pull Request. Github

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Thank you for your contribution.

  1. You might want to add more details in your README
  2. You might want to start writing tests e.g. the test file is empty.
  3. It is better to split your changes over several commits and add more description to your commit messages.
  4. Please add more comments and remove un-used code - keep your project codebase clean.
  5. I am not such fond of building such community (kinda re-invent the wheel and trust me, it is not easy) - as there are already many well-established ones such as stackoverflow, MSDN. However, you might consider building one for steem blockchain! :) e.g. instead of signing with Google, you might want to support signing with steemconnect.

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@justyy thanks for moderating my contribution.. I'll Work on the things you've advised

@justyy could you give me more info on building for the steem block chain?

Thank you for your review, @justyy! Keep up the good work!

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