neXtgen 🌍📱

Contributors guide 🔗

Overview 🌟

Interact with people within a 100-meter radius! Get real-time locations of nearby folks on Google Maps and chat or have a video call with them. If the conversation wasn’t up to par, you can give them a solid 0-star rating. 😄👎

Features 🚀

• Real-time Location: Spy on the real-time whereabouts of nearby users on Google Maps. 🕵️‍♂️🗺️
• Chat: Send some text magic to nearby users. 💬🧙‍♂️
• Video Call: Face-to-face chats with nearby users using the power of WebRTC. 📹👥
• Rating System: Rate your chat experience. If it was a dud, slap them with a 0-star review. 🌟😢

Technologies Used 🛠️

• Android: The app is tailor-made for Android devices. 🤖📱
• Firebase: Powering up authentication, real-time database awesomeness, and storage ninja skills. 🔥🧙‍♀️
• WebRTC: Real-time video calling sorcery. Let the calls flow like magic! 🎩🔮
• Google Maps API: Pinpointing the exact coordinates of your newfound friends. 📍🗺️
• Kotlin: The language of choice for Android wizardry. It’s like casting spells with code! 🧙‍♂️✨

Screenshots 📸

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Time to mingle, chat, and rate! Have fun exploring the world around you. 🌍🎉

Troubleshooting 🤔

If you encounter any issues while setting up or using NextGen, try the following troubleshooting tips.

1. Build Fails with Gradle Errors

• Issue: Errors related to Gradle during the build process.
• Solution: Ensure you have the correct version of Gradle and Android Studio installed. Check the build.gradle files to verify dependencies are compatible.

Additional Tip from #75:

• Issue: Incompatible Java version settings causing errors such as kaptGenerateStubsDebugKotlin task failures.
• Solution: Make sure JAVA_HOME is set to JDK 17 in the environment variables. In the build.gradle files, specify:

  android {
      compileOptions {
          sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
          targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
      }
      kotlinOptions {
          jvmTarget = "1.8"
      }
  }

2. Missing SDK Components

• Issue: Build failure due to missing SDK components.
• Solution: Check for required packages using the SDK Manager in Android Studio and install any missing dependencies.

3. Dependency Conflicts

• Issue: Conflicts between libraries or dependencies causing build issues.
• Solution: Review the build.gradle files and check for any version conflicts. Updating the library versions to be compatible might solve the issue.

4. Insufficient Memory During Build

• Issue: Running out of memory while building the project.
• Solution: Increase the heap size in the gradle.properties file. Try allocating more memory to the Gradle build by updating:

  org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m

5. Clarification on SERVER_URL in secrets.properties from #47

Issue: Uncertainty about the value to use for SERVER_URL. Solution: If you are not working on the video call feature, please add any random characters as a workaround (e.g., SERVER_URL=pbdwkw). This variable holds the video call server URL. You can find the repository for reference here.

TODO 📝

• Enhance UX of video call feature.
• Notification UI.
• Improve UI/UX.
• Fix crashing when user swtiches to light/dark mode.