Overview

Purpose

• This project is essentially developed to draw a standard schema for e-commerce application development for Android platform.
• If you develop an e-commerce app for your business or college, this project could be handy.

Features

• This project does not have an integrated payment API. So you can freely integrate your own choice of API.
• Display categories on Home page.
• Create orders on Cart page.
• Authenticate your customers on Account page.
• Validate phone numbers via Abstract API. You can also make use of different APIs with respect to this implementation.
• Check the security measures on Settings page

Mobile Security Measures

• Disabled screenshots for particular view of the app to secure personal information.

Contribute

• You are free to fork this project and develop your own e-commerce app with more beautiful layouts and features :)
• If you detect any problem related to this project. You can ticket an issue freely on Github.

Learning Outcomes

• Using Dart programming language to develop layouts and organize data in Android platform. Also implementing Object-Oriented programming, asychronous programming, networking.
• Using Google Firebase products, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Authentication, to maintain backend easily.
• Implementing Mobile Security measures to demonstrate how a mobile app can be secured.
• Implementing an Flutter-embedded database, SQLite.

API Reference

• Abstract API

Setup

• Follow the steps accordingly.

Version

• Make sure your IDE has the latest Flutter, Kotlin, Dart versions.
• Also make sure your Android SDK version is the latest.

Firebase

• Navigate to Firebase and create a Firebase project and update your config files including google-services.json

Firestore

• You can integrate another API to retrieve products or you can retrieve products from Firestore like this

Pubspec.yaml

• You have to include the packages in pubspec.yaml

Mobile Security

.env

• You need to create a .env file to secure your api keys.