AlumNet Social Media App

Wooble is a fully functional social media app with multiple features built with flutter and dart.

• Alumnet is an app that has been built with Flutter and Dart.
• It is a network app that has multiple features.

Requirements

• Any Operating System (OS) (ie. MacOS, Linux, Windows)
• Any Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with Flutter SDK installed (ie. IntelliJ, Android Studio, VSCode, etc)
• A beginner level knowledge of Dart and Flutter.

Features

• Connect
• Chatting
• Posting
• NewsFeed

Screenshots

Installation

1. Setup Flutter

2. Clone the repo

3. Setup the firebase app

• You need to create a Firebase instance. Follow the instructions at https://console.firebase.google.com.
• Once you create Firebase instance, you need to enable Google authentication.
• Go to the Firebase Console for your new instance.
• Click “Authentication” in the left-hand menu
• Click the “sign-in method” tab
• Click “Email and Password” and enable it
• Create an app within your Firebase instance for Android, with package name com.yourcompany.news
• Run the following command to get your SHA-1 key:

keytool -exportcert -list -v \
-alias androiddebugkey -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore

• In the Firebase console, in the settings of your Android app, add your SHA-1 key by clicking “Add Fingerprint”.
• Follow instructions to download google-services.json
• place google-services.json into /android/app/.
• (skip if not running on iOS)
• Create an app within your Firebase instance for iOS, with your app package name
• Follow instructions to download GoogleService-Info.plist
• Open XCode, right click the Runner folder, select the “Add Files to ‘Runner'” menu, and select the GoogleService-Info.plist file to add it to /ios/Runner in XCode
• Open /ios/Runner/Info.plist in a text editor. Locate the CFBundleURLSchemes key. The second item in the array value of this key is specific to the Firebase instance. Replace it with the value for REVERSED_CLIENT_ID from GoogleService-Info.plist

Double check install instructions for both

• Google Auth Plugin
• https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/firebase_auth
• Firestore Plugin
• https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/cloud_firestore

What’s Next?

• Voice chat
• Community Hub
• Sending and Uploading Videos(Video Compatibility)

GitHub

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