BizNotio

An app to connect investees to investor

Features

• Realtime chatting
• Peer-to-peer video calling
• Create startup posts
• Send payments to users
• Search Users with account types
• Maintain Account

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

What things you need to install the software and how to install them

IntelliJ Ultimate 2020.2 Java 1.8 SDK

Dependencies are below:

build.gradle

    // Glide and picasso is used, we provided examples on how to use either library
    // to load images from a url
    def glide_version = "4.8.0"
    implementation "com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:$glide_version"
    annotationProcessor "com.github.bumptech.glide:compiler:$glide_version"

    // Circle image view crop dependency from another github
    implementation 'de.hdodenhof:circleimageview:3.1.0'

    // groupie recycler view helper dependency used for logical placement of items in recycler view
    def groupie_version = "2.8.1"
    implementation "com.xwray:groupie:$groupie_version"

    def picasso_version = "2.71828"
    implementation "com.squareup.picasso:picasso:$picasso_version"

    // Both ViewModels and LiveData are used for passing data between fragments and activities
    implementation "androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel-ktx:$lifecycle_version"
    implementation "androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-livedata-ktx:$lifecycle_version"

    // Twilio is used for video calling
    implementation "com.twilio:audioswitch:0.1.5"
    implementation "com.twilio:video-android:5.9.0"


    implementation "com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.1.3"
    implementation "com.koushikdutta.ion:ion:2.1.8"
    

Installing

To install the application, check out the releases tab on the Github repo. This should be a simple APK that you can install directly to the phone. Since this APK will have our database connected, you won't need to deploy your own Firebase project or Node.js server to run the application. If you do want to build from source you will need to launch your own Firebase app and connect it to Android, you will also have to launch your own server to handle token authorization for the Twilio programmable video SDK.

Steps to build from source:

Open IntelliJ and select new project from existing source 

On URL put this link

https://github.com/Sindhu-Parajuli/BizNotio2.git

Wait for the gradle sync to finish. Press build on top portion of screen

Copy these two lines in temp.txt

TWILIO_ACCESS_TOKEN_SERVER=https://citrine-speckled-recess.glitch.me/
USE_TOKEN_SERVER=true

to local.properties

You will have a running app but if you want your own database follow the instructions below! 

Set up the backend

Create a Firebase project and link it to your clone

Follow this tutorial for Twilio programmable voice

Launch the Node.js server for token authorization

That's all you need to do for the backend!

Back to IntelliJ

Run the app on your emulator from AVD Manager or use your phone Instructions on testing the app on your phone can be found here:

Android Developers Guide

Now after you hook up the backend credentials to your clone you will have a fully functioning Biznotio app! 😎✨🎉

Demo

Built With

• Figma - Design and prototyping tool
• Kotlin - Google's preferred language for Android app development
• Jetpack - UI management and creation
• Twilio - Used for video calling feature
• Firebase - Powerful, world-class infrastructure for mobile apps

Contributing

If you would like to contribute, make a pull request to have it reviewed by one of us.

Authors

• Chowdhury, Lamia - Core Team Member - Profile

• Gupta, Sushant - Core Team Member - Profile

• Padilla, Jonathan - Core Team Member - Profile

• Parajuli, Sindhu - Core Team Member - Profile

Any contributors will be added to this list 😁

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• Hat tip to anyone whose code was used
• This project was for the Software Engineering course, CSE 3310, under Professor Rodrigo Augusto Dos Santos
• Thank you for visiting 🎉