Chat and voice / video calling app using ConnectyCube

This project contains a chat and voice / video calling app for Android written in Kotlin and based on ConnectyCube communication platform.

Features

• User authorization
• User profile and avatar
• Chat dialogs (private and group)
• Group chat: edit group name, description; add/remove participants; add/remove admins
• Group chat info
• Send messages
• File attachments (only Image)
• Sent/Delivered/Read messages statuses
• ‘Is typing’ statuses
• Video and Audio calls (p2p and group)

Technical specification:

• Language - Kotlin (with using coroutines)
• Support library - androidx

Used Android Architecture Components:

• LiveData - Notify views when underlying database changes
• ViewModel - Manage UI-related data in a lifecycle-conscious way
• Room - Fluent SQLite database access
• Paging - Gradually load information on demand from data source
• WorkManager - Manage Android background jobs

How to run:

1. Register new account and application at https://admin.connectycube.com

2. Put Application credentials from Overview page from https://admin.connectycube.com/account/settings to app/src/main/java/com/connectycube/messenger/utilities/SettingsProvider.kt class

3. Follow to https://admin.connectycube.com and create users in Users module. Then put to the app/src/main/assets/user_configiration.json file at least 2 and max 5 users with format ["login":{"password":userId}], for ex. "userchatLogin1":{"userchatPassword1":310}.

4. To setup push notifications, do the following:

• get and set Server Key FCM in ConnectyCube Dashboard
• define sender_id (your sender id from google console) in string resource and put your google-services.json to module package
• uncomment apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services' line in app module build.gradle file.

For more information look at https://developers.connectycube.com/android/push-notifications

5. Run project.

Documentation

• Android SDK documentation
• Authentication and Users
• Chat API
• Video Chat API
• Push Notifications API

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License

See LICENSE