Glamify Queen is an Android app project designed as a feature-rich application for learning and exploring key functionalities of modern mobile app development. This project serves as a hands-on experience, incorporating essential components such as managing UI elements, handling user interactions, and seamless navigation between multiple modules.
Whether you're a beginner learning Android development or an experienced developer looking for an engaging project, Glamify Queen provides a structured environment to explore advanced Android features.
This project is packed with essential and advanced Android features that demonstrate best practices for developing modern mobile applications. Key functionalities include:
- Feature Description: A dynamic dashboard that showcases featured content, categories, and banners for promotions or announcements.
- Purpose: Helps users quickly navigate through the app with a clean and organized layout.
- Development Insights: You'll learn how to build a responsive and engaging UI using traditional XML layouts.
- Feature Description: A powerful search feature enabling users to find specific items or content.
- Purpose: Provides quick access to the desired content using search queries.
- Development Insights: This feature involves setting up RecyclerView, ViewModel, and LiveData to implement search results efficiently.
- Feature Description: A cart functionality where users can add and review items.
- Purpose: Simulates shopping cart-like behavior for tracking items selected for further action.
- Development Insights: You'll explore the management of local storage, building RecyclerView adapters, and handling user interactions.
- Feature Description: Manage and update user profiles with personal details.
- Purpose: Allows users to view and update their account information and preferences.
- Development Insights: You'll learn about data binding, form handling, and user data management in a mobile context.
- Feature Description: Secure user authentication through email, password, Google, and GitHub login, along with a forgot password feature.
- Purpose: Ensures that user accounts are secure and easily accessible.
- Development Insights: Learn about integrating Firebase Authentication to handle user credentials and maintain session management.
- Feature Description: Real-time tracking for orders placed or ongoing processes within the app.
- Purpose: Keeps users informed of the status of their actions.
- Development Insights: Focus on Firebase Realtime Database to fetch and update order status data dynamically.
The Glamify Queen project is built using modern technologies, following the latest Android development standards:
- Language: Java – One of the official languages for Android development, widely supported and reliable.
- Architecture: MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) – This architecture separates business logic from UI, making the app easier to maintain and scale.
- UI Components:
- XML Layouts – Traditional Android layouts for building user interfaces.
- RecyclerView – For handling dynamic lists of data efficiently.
- Data Handling:
- Firebase Realtime Database – For storing and syncing app data in real-time.
- Firebase Cloud Firestore – For scalable, cloud-based data storage.
- State Management:
- LiveData – For managing UI-related data in a lifecycle-conscious way.
- ViewModel – For storing UI-related data that survives configuration changes.
- Firebase Authentication – For user authentication with email, password, Google, GitHub, and password recovery.
- Firebase Realtime Database – For real-time data sync and storage.
- Firebase Storage – For storing user-generated content such as images.
- Firebase Analytics – For tracking user interactions and understanding app usage.
To get a local copy of the Glamify Queen project up and running, follow these simple steps:
- Open Android Studio.
- Select File > Open and navigate to the project directory.
- Let Android Studio configure the project and install the required dependencies.
- Go to the Firebase Console.
- Create a new project and configure Firebase Authentication, Realtime Database, Cloud Firestore, and Firebase Storage.
- Download the
google-services.jsonfile and add it to your project in theapp/directory.
- Ensure you have an Android Virtual Device (AVD) or physical device connected.
- Click on the Run button in Android Studio to build and deploy the app on your emulator/device.
The Glamify Queen project includes unit and UI tests to ensure the app works as expected.
Run unit tests with the following command:
./gradlew test