COMP 363 Chat Application Carlos Bueso Luis Santos
First we set up the project:
- Connected to Firebase database
- Created main activity as well as supporting activities
- Added basic esthetic design
The worked on authentication with email and password:
- StartActivity class (lets you choose between register and login)
- Added basic design
- Created LoginActivity.java
- Lets you input an email and a password for existing users
- RegisterActivity.java lets you input 3 fields (username, email, password)
- We took care of certain exceptions like password length, and not typing anything
- Users get stored in Firebase database.
Then we added User.java to show user information, as well as to implement functionalities like autologin and logout.
We also added a class that will later be of more use, called Fragment, which will inherit UsersFragment and ChatsFragment. These classes will allow to store all fragments needed for both the Users panel in the Tab Layout, as well as the Chats panel in the Tab Layout.
Then to display the users, the class UserAdapter was created to include all the users that the current logged in account has added. Small design was added to this display. Later more design will be implemented to be able to open the user's account, information, and shared files with that person.
Then class MessageActivity was created to start working on sending messages between users, through Firebase.Simple design was implemented to create individual chat activities for each user.
We still have a long way to go, and the things to be implemented are:
- Displaying messages between users.
- Display specific users with whom you share a conversation.
- Obtain the profile of the user as well as shared files.
- Change your profile picture as well as access all shared files.
- Show online/offline status.
- Search algorithms for added users.
- Add function to be able to see if receiver has seen a message.
- Implementing initial esthetic design.