PhotoBlog

A complete Instagram Clone App created with JAVA and Firebase

Features

• Custom photo feed based on who you follow
• Post photo posts from camera or gallery
  • Like posts
    • View all likes on a post
  • Comment on posts
    • View all comments on a post
• Search for users
  • Search screen showing all images except your own
  • Search based on usernames
• Profile Screen
  • Follow / Unfollow Users
  • Change image view from grid layout to feed layout
  • Edit profile
• Chat Screen
  • Chat with any user
  • Share images while chatting

3. Setup the firebase app

1. You'll need to create a Firebase instance. Follow the instructions at https://console.firebase.google.com.
2. Once your Firebase instance is created, you'll need to enable anonymous authentication.

• Go to the Firebase Console for your new instance.
• Click "Authentication" in the left-hand menu
• Click the "sign-in method" tab
• Click "Google" and enable it

4. Enable the Firebase Database

• Go to the Firebase Console
• Click "Database" in the left-hand menu
• Click the Cloudstore "Create Database" button
• Select "Start in test mode" and "Enable"

5. (skip if not running on Android)

• Create an app within your Firebase instance for Android, with package name com.mohak.instagram
• Run the following command to get your SHA-1 key:

keytool -exportcert -list -v \
-alias androiddebugkey -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore

• In the Firebase console, in the settings of your Android app, add your SHA-1 key by clicking "Add Fingerprint".
• Follow instructions to download google-services.json
• place google-services.json into /android/app/.

How to Contribute

1. Fork the the project
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Make required changes and commit (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request