Getting bored? Worry not! Here's FirstChat!
A beautiful messaging app where you can interact with anonymous people in an anonymous group while being anonymous ;) If you are getting bored and want to talk to strangers without revealing your identity, you can register on the app where you can chat in an anonymous group. The app is written in Flutter, a hybrid mobile app framework, and uses Firebase Authentication and Firestore services for user authentication and messaging over the internet. The app has a beautiful UI that promotes user interaction and provides a good user experience.
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- Dart-lang
- Flutter
- Firebase Firestore Database
- Firebase Authentication (Email/Google/Facebook)
- Firebase App Check
- Provider State Management
- firebase_core
- firebase_auth
- cloud_firestore
- firebase_app_check
- google_sign_in
- flutter_facebook_auth
- provider
- modal_progress_hud
- font_awesome_flutter
- cupertino_icons
I learned about the concept of polling, which is heavily used while developing real-world mobile and web applications. Polling is implemented using streams, and by subscribing to these streams, the client application gets notified of the new data as soon as it comes to an API or a database. I used this to display the messages as soon as they were sent from the client and stored in the Firebase Firestore database. This helped me integrate real-time messaging into the app. Furthermore, I learned about Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) and Google Cloud Platform's BaaS offering named Firebase.