Simple Blogging App

The Simple Blogging App is a mobile application that allows users to read, write, edit, and delete their own blog posts. The app is built using the Flutter framework, a popular open-source mobile app development SDK that enables developers to build high-performance, cross-platform apps for iOS and Android.

Note: This project uses Node.js API, A Firebase version of this project can be found on firebase-main branch.

Node.js Backend Project for this application can be found here.

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Technical Details

The Simple Blogging App uses the following technologies:

• Flutter - an open-source UI software development kit created by Google. It is used to develop applications for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Windows, Google Fuchsia, and the web from a single codebase.
• Node.js - an open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that runs on the V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser.
• Shared Preferences - a Flutter plugin for reading and writing simple key-value pairs. Perfect for storing simple data like user preferences.

Features

• User authentication
• User can create, edit, and delete their own blog posts
• User can subscribe to other users
• User can search for other users
• User can view other users' profiles
• User can view other users' posts
• User can view their own profile
• User can view their own posts
• User profile management with Mongo DB
• Blog post management with Mongo DB
• Blog post image upload with Cloudinary
• Simple and minimal UI design
• Fluid animations

Requirements

• Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and above.
• Android SDK installed on the development environment. See the Android SDK installation guide for more details.
• Flutter framework installed. See the Flutter installation guide for more details.

Getting Started

• Clone the repository and open the project in your favorite IDE.
• Set up a Firebase project and enable Authentication, Cloud Firestore and Cloud Storage. Add the Firebase configuration file to the android/app directory.
• Run the following command to install the required packages:

flutter pub get

• Run the app on an Android device or emulator. by running the following command:

flutter run

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you find any bugs or have suggestions for new features, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

The Simple Blogging App is released under the MIT License. Feel free to use and modify the code for your own projects.