This app is based on a course project from The Complete 2020 Flutter Development Bootcamp with Dart on Udemy. Refactors the original code, adds some new features and fixes some bugs.
Flash Chat is a light-weight group chat app for both iOS and Android. It is developed using Flutter. It uses Firebase Cloud Firestore, a cloud-based NoSQL database, and Firebase Authentication for secure authentication.
- Download this repository by
git clone https://github.com/wq-yang/Flash-App.git - Add you own Firestore Credentials:
- Create a Google Firebase project.
- Follow Firebase docs to enable Authentication and Cloud Firestore.
- (If needed) Add Android app for your Firebase project, download
google-services.json, and move it to/PATH_TO_YOUR_APP/android/app/ - (If needed) Add iOS app for your Firebase project, download
GoogleService-Info.plist, and move it to/PATH_TO_YOUR_APP/ios/Runner/
- Build iOS and (or) Android version of Flash Chat.
- Refactored the code based on DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) rule.
- Reduced time to load message bubble style. From about 0.5 second to not noticeable.
- Improved input experience — switch focus, submit form, and send message using only keyboard.
- Disable navigating back to chat screen after the user has signed out.
- Fixed the bug of possibly not showing messages chronological.
- Fixed the bug of sending repetitive messages when hitting send button even if the input box is empty
- Continue refactoring the code.
- Allow creating and joining chatrooms with a generated room ID.
- Prompt user when failing to log in or register.
- Allow using customized username (by default using the log in email id).
- Improve user experience when new message is sent.
- More animations for loading etc.