BrighterBee -by NP Devs

Developing a community for learners. Made for Droidrush: Avishkar MNNIT 2k20.

This app won 1^st place in Droidrush.

Process flow of the app

User can register on the app and choose communities he/she wants to be a member of.
Users can post articles which may contain image, text, gif, video embedded.
Users can upvote/ downvote and comment on any article.
User can edit or delete only his/her post but admins can do it for all the posts.
Views are counted for every article.
Users can stream live video in a community and members of that community can join in to watch the stream.

Articles are in Rich Text Format with images embedded in them.
One post can contain one image/ video other than the images present in text itself.
Articles can be bookmarked.
Communities have option to be made public/ private. Private community cannot be searched but members can only be invited via invite code.
Member addition can be made such that admin verification required for it via a setting in community.
Feed is generated considering the date of post, the number of upvotes/ downvotes and the number of comments.
Users can follow each other to see others public posts in there feed.
Users can see the profiles of other users with the posts which are from public groups.
Articles and comments will be lazily loaded.
Article posting, user follow, admin verification all send push notifications wherever necessary.
Users/ posts/ communities can be searched using search bars present throughout the app.
It is not necessary to write whole post in one go, users can benefit from the draft feature.
The app has full Android 10+ dark theme support.

For more intricate details view screenshots attached below.

Zefyr editor 0.12: for the Rich Text editor and viewer.
Quill delta 1.0.0: to make Notus documents, which helps work on RTF format.
Image picker 0.6.7: for picking images and videos from gallery or camera.
Firebase Auth 0.18.1: for user login/ signup authentication.
Firebase core 0.5.0 and Cloud Firestore 0.14.1: for using Google Cloud Firestore database.
Image 2.1.18: for working on images, e.g., compressing them.
Agora RTC Engine 3.1.3: for video calling.
Firebase Cloud Messaging 7.0.2: for sending push notifications.
Shimmer 1.1.2: for shimmer effect in cards
Flutter Local Notifications 1.5.0: for displaying notifications
Permission Handler 3.0.0: for easy permission handling
Date Format 1.0.9: for easy date formatting
Path Provider 1.6.18: for getting path for storing temporary files
Firebase Storage 4.0.1: for using Firebase Cloud Storage
fluttertoast 7.1.1: to display toast messages
rxdart 0.24.1: for Firebase stream complex tasks handling
Path 1.7.0: to work on file paths
Chewie 0.9.10 and Video Player 0.10.9: for easy video player implementation
Progress dialog 1.2.4: to show Progress Dialog
Cached Network Image 2.3.3: for faster image loading by caching
Shared Preferences 0.5.12: to enable Shared Preferences support
Photo View 0.10.2: to display full screen zoomable and pannable images.
URL Launcher 5.7.6: for URL launching
Notus to HTML 0.0.7: to convert Notus Documents to HTML, for sharing
share 0.6.5: for sharing content to other apps

Get the project presentation here.

Either get the latest APK from releases: https://bit.ly/35uR0uy,

Or;

Clone the repository
Create a Firebase project, add com.npdevs.brighter_bee to it, edit rules as required.
Place google-services.json in /android/app/ folder.
Build the app, deploy to your device and you are good to go.


Login	Register	Reset password
Home screen feed	Post view	Comments and Replies
Post options for creator	Post options for viewer	Create post
Warning to save draft	Community tab feed	List of member communities
Create community	List of all public communities, button at top for private ones	Community home
Community options	Admin control panel	Community profile
Live stream	Notifications screen	Notifications
More options	Search posts	Following list
Saved posts	Saved in community	Search communities
Search users	User profile	User's posts
Leave community by swipe	Settings	Dark theme feed
Dark theme more options screen	Dark theme profile	Dark theme discover screen