FriendlyChat

This repository contains code for the FriendlyChat project in the Firebase in a Weekend: Android by Google Udacity course.

Overview

FriendlyChat is an app that allows users to send and receive text and photos in realtime across platforms.

Setup requires creating a Firebase project. See https://firebase.google.com/ for more information.

Get base fragment working (?)
Allow a restaurant to have multiple categories
Create like "Portals" or something, and segregate messages to just those members of your portal
Update model to handle category / categories
Add "Save" menu option to Restaurant fragment
Figure out a color scheme
Build out a home screen that allows filtering by distance and categories, then shows the list of matches. Then, allows a random selection from those.
Add voting system
Add ability to have app recommend places that haven't been chosen in a long time
Save the category ID instead of the category name
Integrate with Yelp API