Appcent Mentor Buddy

The project we developed with the help of my mentor Alaa Eddin Albarghoth during my internship.

This project represents a mobile cloud based gallery application.

Mentor: Alaa Eddin Albarghoth
Mentee: Mehmet Emin Ergenç

Authors and Acknowledgments

Of course, I am grateful to my mentor Alaa Eddin Albarghoth and the entire Appcent team.

Used Technologies

Firebase, Cloud Firestore, Firebase Realtime Database, Firebase Storage, Firebase Authentication

Project Task Document

Appcent Mentor Buddy Task Document — By Alaa Eddin Albarghoth

Run it

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/mergencdev/AppcentMentorBuddy

Open in Android Studio and run.

Screenshots

Desired features of the project

• Create a Tabbed Application:

    Tab 1: (Feed)
    1. Show news feed in a grid of 2 columns (grid item should contain image, title and description).
    2. A button to switch between fixed grid size and automatic height based on the image's aspect ratio.
    Note: Please refer to the following images for a better understanding of fixed and automatic grid sizing
    3. Cache all the images into Disk after downloading to be used offline.
    4. Make a custom search bar that looks like the following:
    Note: don't forget to show/hide the progress loader in the search bar.
    5. Tap on the camera icon to take a picture from the camera and insert it into the grid. Note: Once you
    add the item to the grid, show a local system notification. 
    6. Long press gestures on the grid item rearrange the positions of the item.
    7. Tap on the grid item to delete with a confirmation bottom sheet.
    8. If there are no items in the grid, show a view like the following:
    9. Share button on the grid item to share the image to WhatsApp, Facebook, etc.
    10. Add a timer to check every 10 minutes; if there are more than ten feeds, remove all the extras.
    11. All the deleted feeds should go into Tab 2 as a list.
  
    Tab 2: (Trash)
    1. A table view is displaying all the deleted feeds with the date and time of deletion.
    2. Add the 'swipe to delete' action to delete the feed permanently.
  

• Instructions for the test:

    1. Follow MVVM architecture and use Kotlin language.
    2. Ensure the code is clean, understandable with comments wherever required, reusable, and bugfree.
    3. You can use any third-party libraries or APIs to get dummy images or add a JSON file with image
    URLs in the project
  

Resources I used during development (Many thanks to those who contributed ❤️)

https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/view-binding

https://developer.android.com/guide/navigation/navigation-getting-started#kts

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout/cardview

https://github.com/hdodenhof/CircleImageView

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40057798/firebase-token-authentication-error

https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/android/custom-auth

https://firebase.google.com/docs/storage/android/upload-files#kotlin+ktx

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49793203/firebase-storage-error-error-getting-token

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54527868/how-to-get-the-date-and-time-when-uploading-image-to-firebase

https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/view-binding#kotlin

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/view-binding-with-fragments-in-android-jetpack/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40587168/simple-android-grid-example-using-recyclerview-with-gridlayoutmanager-like-the

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/view-binding-with-fragments-in-android-jetpack/

https://square.github.io/picasso/

https://github.com/bumptech/glide

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51344714/how-to-create-option-menu-in-fragment/51344762

https://github.com/MikeOrtiz/TouchImageView

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/how-to-set-dialog-to-show-with-full-screen-in-android-using-kotlin

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs#AlertDialog

https://developer.android.com/training/sharing/send

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62499608/kotlin-how-to-pass-data-from-recyclerview-in-fragment-to-another-fragment-using

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53694594/changing-visibility-of-a-recyclerview-item-changes-other-items-visibility

https://developer.android.com/training/notify-user/build-notification

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2620444/how-to-prevent-a-dialog-from-closing-when-a-button-is-clicked

https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/query-data/get-data#kotlin+ktx_4

https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/manage-data/delete-data#kotlin+ktx_2

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54144543/firestore-google-cloud-timestamp-parsing?rq=1

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49488312/androidstudio-import-svg-with-error-mask-is-not-supported

https://svg2vector.com/

https://developer.android.com/studio/write/vector-asset-studio#svg

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42595335/how-to-implement-android-splash-screen-using-svg-instead-of-png

https://developer.android.com/training/dependency-injection/hilt-android#groovy

Colors

Hex
#1E2C3F
#FF7A00
#BFC0C2
#D5D5D5

Support and Feedback

If you want to support me or give any feedback, please contact me at [email protected].

License

GNU General Public License v3.0