MaNishMa is a WhatsApp like chat app based on Firebase Realtime Database. The main motivation behind this app is purely for learning purposes. Experimenting with different technologies, techniques and architectures.

This project is work in progress, mainly during my free time.

The project attempts to adhere to the best practices in Android App development.

• MVVM is used as the architecture for the UI in combination with Android Data Binding library
• Each code package encapsulates a specific feature in the app
• Dagger Android is used for dependency injection
• Abstraction - services are abstracted using interfaces so they can be easily changed with Dagger. One example is FirebaseMessagingService under realtimedb branch, which is replaced by XmppMessagingService in other branches.
• Unit testing the model in isolation
• Espresso automated UI testing using Robot pattern

This repository contains several branches. The one which is being actively developed is realtimedb. The other branches are experiments that I've done with different architectures and technologies, such as:

• MVP vs MVVM
• Java vs Kotlin
• Firebase Realtime Database vs XMPP

etc.

You'll need Android Studio 3 beta 2 at the minimum to run it. You'll also need to attach your own google-services.json file from your Firebase project.

Copyright 2017 Nimrod Dayan

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

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