A cross-platform chat application, made with Flutter, with a Firebase BaaS and 100% client-side code execution.

Talk to your friends and family just by using their email IDs. Communication in Phi Chat takes place via Conversations. Set a nice photo, a catchy name and add as many people as you want in a conversation. You can even have multiple conversations with the same person!

Invite people to your conversation in a hassle-free way, by letting them scan a QR Code or by sending them a super-secret code. 🤫

🌟 Features

• Email + Password Authentication & Verification
• Google OAuth Sign-in
• Responsive Layout
• Customisable User Profiles
• QR-Code enabled sharing
• Swipe-to-Reply
• Photo Uploads

📱 Screenshots

❓How to Use

Pre-requisites

• Flutter is installed and added to PATH
• Firebase Account

Steps to Follow

• Create a Firebase project for Phi-Chat in the Firebase Console

  • Enable the desired platforms & follow initialisation instrux
  • Enable Email/Password in Authentication > Sign-in method
  • Enable Google (Optional)

• Initialise firebase

• For Android testing -

  • In your terminal, execute -

    cd android
    gradlew signingReport
    

    NOTE - In case your terminal doesn't recognise 'gradlew' as a valid command, run your flutter android app once by following the next bullet points. Then come back to this section and retry.

  • Add your debug SHA-1 & SHA-256 keys in your Firebase Project Settings

  • Download the latest google-services.json file and put it in the Firebase specified android subdirectory

• Get the packages, in your terminal, execute -

  flutter clean
  flutter pub get
  

• That's it, you can now run it!

  flutter run
  

• Optional: To ensure working of Google Sign In, follow the steps in their Platform Integration Guide

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are always welcome!

See the Contribution Guide for ways to get started.

🤩 Inspired By

This project was inspired by Angela Yu's FlashChat Flutter application, which was demonstrated in her course The Complete 2021 Flutter Development Bootcamp with Dart on Udemy.

📖Lessons Learned

Phi Chat has been and forever will be a great compilation of newly found information and learning. While creating this project, my motto was to teach myself about Flutter and BaaS Platforms as much as I could.

I learnt many things along the way, the most notable ones are mentioned below -

• Flutter Streams and Futures, asynchronous code
• Using multiple features of Firebase
• Adding OAuth Providers
• Building responsive UI
• Using community-built packages, accessing the Device Filesystem
• Gesture Detectors & conditional UI (for message bubbles)
• and so much more...

💡 Authors

• @Anikate De

📝 License

Copyright © 2022-present, Anikate De

This project is licensed under Apache License 2.0