BeFrend - Upgrade Your College Life Youtube Demo

BeFrend is a product that was designed to help college students find people from their College, who have similar interests and skills as them.

To Collaborate, Explore & Build The Future. Learn more here

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Demo

Problems

Solution

Features

• Discover Students Based on their Interests & Skills
• Send Request -> Swipe Right.
• Accept Requests from other People in the Likes Section
• All connections at one place
• Take conversations forward with chat
• Express yourself with help of profile customisations
• UI that soothes your eyes.

Screenshots

Tech Stack

Client: Kotlin, Xml

Server Side: Google Firebase

Android Topics Used:

1. Basics:

• Jetpack Navigation Component
• Fragments
• Kotlin Coroutines
• View Binding
• Shared View Model

2. Firebase:

• Firebase Google Authentication.
• Cloud Firestore - Stores both User Login info and User Data
• set, add, delete, snapshots.
• Firebase Storage - to store Images of Users

3. UI:

• Recycler View
• Tinder like Swipeable Card UI
• Lottie Files

4. Abstract Concepts:

• Caching -> To Reduce load time
• Models of Each Entity

5. 3rd Party Libraries:

• Glide -> Image Loading
• Volley -> Network Calls
• AsynctaskCoffee /TinderLikeCardStack -> Discover Page Cards UI

6. Image Related Libraries:

• Dimezis /BlurView -> Blur Images
• Shouheng88 /Compressor -> Image Compression
• Dhaval2404 /ImagePicker -> Image Picker
• CircleImageView by hdodenhof

Color Reference

Color	Hex
Primary Theme Color	#FF5F00
Secondary Theme Color	#E7E9ED
New Black Color	#E6101010

🚀 About Me

My name is Ayush Yadav and I'm an Android Developer, working with kotlin.

Trying to build products that people would actually use in their daily life. Email: ayushyadavcodes@gmail.com

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Team

• Founder/ Android Development -@ayushunleashed
• UI/UX Design - @yogendramanawat

FAQ

Is this app live on Playstore?

Not Yet, I am fixing a bug issue, soon it would be uploaded.

What's current Progress?

• Idea [ done ]
• Figma Prototype [ done ]
• Development Started [ done ]
• MVP Ready [ done ]
• Beta Testing [ done ]
• Bug Fixing [ going on ]
• Launching? [ Available on Google Playstore ]