🏆 My Firebase Chat — Real-Time Android Chat App (Android 11 Support)

Modern one-to-one & group messaging built on Firebase — SEO-optimized, E-E-A-T compliant, and ready for GPL redistribution on wpshop.net.

🚀 Overview

My Firebase Chat is a production-ready Android chat application featuring real-time messaging,
push notifications, media sharing, and secure authentication. It’s ideal for startups, communities,
internal teams, and support apps that need a reliable chat core without building servers from scratch.

Experience: The flow mirrors real chat apps — presence, typing indicators, read receipts,
reply & delete, and message search — refined from day-to-day usage patterns on Android devices.

✨ Key Features

• 1-1 & Group Chats: create groups, add/remove members, mention users.
• Real-Time Messaging: Firestore/Realtime Database updates with offline persistence.
• Media & Files: images, voice notes, documents with Firebase Storage.
• Presence & Typing: online status, last seen, and “typing…” indicators.
• Read Receipts: sent/delivered/read ticks and per-message timestamps.
• Push Notifications: FCM with notification channels and deep links.
• Search & Filters: search messages, users, and conversations.
• User Profiles: avatar, display name, bio; block/report options.
• Localization + RTL: multi-language UI with right-to-left support.
• Moderation: message delete for everyone (time-boxed), report flags, basic anti-spam.

⚙️ Technical Stack

• Language: Kotlin (AndroidX, Jetpack).
• Architecture: MVVM + Repository, Kotlin Coroutines/Flow, ViewModel, Hilt (DI).
• Firebase: Authentication (Email/Google/Phone), Firestore or Realtime Database, Storage, Cloud Messaging, Remote Config.
• UI: Material 3 components; optional Jetpack Compose variant (if included).
• Android 11 (API 30) Support: scoped storage, foreground service types, one-time permissions, notification channels.
• Other: Glide/Coil for images, WorkManager for retries, Crashlytics (optional).

🧩 Installation Guide

1. Firebase Project: create a project → add Android app → download google-services.json to app/.
2. Enable Services: Auth providers (Email/Google/Phone), Firestore/Realtime DB, Storage, and Cloud Messaging.
3. Rules: set Firestore/Storage Security Rules (development → production hardened policies).
4. Config: update applicationId, app name, colors, and server keys (FCM) in local.properties/gradle.
5. Build: ./gradlew assembleRelease (use a signing config) → upload AAB to Google Play.

📦 Deliverables

• Complete Android Studio project (Kotlin, MVVM).
• Firebase integration hooks (Auth, Firestore/DB, Storage, FCM).
• UI screens: splash, login, chat list, chat detail, profile, group management, settings.
• Sample assets and configuration templates.
• Documentation: setup, security rules examples, release checklist.

📱 Supported Platforms

• Android: 6.0+ (API 23+), fully tested on Android 11 (API 30) and above.
• Backend: Google Firebase (no custom server required).

🧠 Notes

• Security: enforce verified sign-in methods, validate reads/writes with custom claims when needed.
• Performance: index Firestore queries, paginate message loads, compress media before upload.
• Privacy: provide a clear privacy policy; handle content reports and retention policies.
• SEO Keywords: Android chat app, Firebase chat, real-time messaging, Android 11 chat.
• License: distributed under the GPL for development, testing & educational use.

👨‍💻 Original Developer Credit

Acknowledgment to the original developer. For the official listing, updates, and commercial license,
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🔒 Disclaimer

This package is redistributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) for testing, learning, and development.
We are not affiliated with or endorsed by the original author or marketplace. All trademarks belong to their owners.
For commercial deployment, updates, and official support, purchase a valid license from the original source.