Vantage

An android app, via which students of our institute (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani) can make a sale, rent or buy used products of other students. This app is developed keeping our institute in mind, thus one having institute alloted email id’s can only sign up and have a vantage!

Getting Started

The following instuctions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purpose.

Prerequisites

What things you need to install the software

1. Latest version of android studio should be set-up and running on your system.
2. Add Firebase to your project. (https://firebase.google.com/docs/android/setup)
3. And finally, an android device (or emulator) running on Jelly Bean or higher.

Setting up Firebase - You have to add your own ‘google-services.json’ file

By now, you would have already downloaded the “google-services.json” file and connected your app to Firebase Server. Finally, to set the server side Authentication, Realtime Database and Storage provided by Google Firebase, follow the steps below:

1. Check for the following dependencies in app-level gradle file

     com.google.firebase16.0.4 : Firebase Core
    com.google.firebase16.0.3 : Realtime Database
    com.google.firebase16.0.3 : Storage
    com.google.firebase16.0.4 : Authentication

2. Add the following database rules, in Firebase console:

    {
    "rules": {
        ".read": "auth !== null",
        ".write": "auth !== null"
        }
    }

3. Add the following storage rules, in Firebase console:

    service firebase.storage {
        match /b/{bucket}/o {
            match /{allPaths=**} {
                allow read, write: if true;
                 }
            }
        }

4. For Authentication, “Email/Password” and “Email link (passwordless sign-in)”, in Firebase should be enabled.

   Installing the App

   Import the app to Android Studio, build the project and finally deploy it in a device (or emulator).

   Features

• You can sell/buy varies ranges of products within our IIIT Kalayani Campus, all you need is an official ‘..@iiitkalyani.ac.in’ email to register.
• Posting an Ad is pretty simple and straight forward.
• News Feed area in the app shows recently posted Ads by any fellow college mates.
• One to one interaction between seller and buyer or owner and renter through the built in chat fucntionality.
• Non-editable Ads, that would ensure the buyer’s safety.
• And the most important part is, the app has an one time-based registration signup.

  Build With

• Google Firebase
• AndroidStaggeredGrid Library
• Glide

  Authors

• Jyotirmoy Paul - Initial work - jyotirmoy-paul