finkmoritz / flutter-amplify-social-media-app

Serverless social media app with Flutter and AWS Amplify

Serverless social media app with Flutter and AWS Amplify

+++ This template is currently under construction and does not contain all the features listed below! +++

This template implements a generic social media app using following cloud capabilities:

• Authentication / authorization
• Cloud storage with GraphQL schema
• Analytics
• Lambda function calls via REST API

The app's features include:

• Profile creation
• Buddylist management
• Feed with posts
• Chat

Getting Started

Prerequisites

In order to use the AWS Amplify service, you need an AWS account.

Install following tools:

• Flutter
• Amplify

Project Setup

Configure your Amplify resources with following commands:

amplify init

amplify add analytics

amplify add auth

amplify add api (GraphQL)

If everything is configured as desired, execute amplify push to create the respective resources in AWS.

Before running this project the first time, make sure to call flutter create ..

Run Project

flutter run

How to modify the app

Datamodel / GraphQL

The GraphQL schema is defined in schema.graphql. Whenever changes have been made to that schema, execute amplify codegen models in order to generate the respective dart classes within the lib/models folder. Fully restart the app so that all changes take effect.