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🎉 A feature-rich social media app built with Kotlin in Android Studio

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📱 Features

• 🔐 Authentication

  • Sign up with Firebase Authentication
  • Sign in with Firebase
  • Store and retrieve user data using Firebase Realtime Database

• 👤 User Profiles

  • Create and edit user profile
  • Account settings management
  • Search for users
  • Follow/Unfollow users
  • Navigate to searched user profiles

• 📸 Posts & Media

  • Upload images to Firebase Storage
  • Post images to timeline
  • Like posts and display total likes
  • Add and view comments
  • View post details from user profile
  • Display user's posts on profile
  • Save and view saved post collections

• 🔔 Notifications

  • Real-time notifications for likes, comments, and follows

• 📚 Stories

  • Upload and view stories
  • Story navigation: next, previous, seen status
  • Display story viewers

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💠 Tech Stack

• Language: Kotlin

• IDE: Android Studio

• Backend & Cloud: Firebase

  • Realtime Database
  • Authentication
  • Storage

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📦 Libraries Used

• android-image-cropper – Image cropping
• StoriesProgressView – Instagram-style story view
• Picasso – Image loading
• CircleImageView – Circular profile images

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🚀 Getting Started

1. 📥 Install Android Studio & Kotlin

👉 Follow official setup guide

2. 🧬 Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/FR34KY-CODER/InstaApp.git

⚠️ Important: Change the package name! How to rename package in Android Studio

3. 🔧 Firebase Setup

• Go to Firebase Console

• Create a new Firebase project

• Enable Email & Password authentication:

  • Authentication → Sign-in method → Enable Email/Password

• Add a new Android App to the Firebase project:

  • Use your app’s package name (e.g., com.yourcompany.instaapp)

• Download google-services.json

• Place it inside:

  /app/google-services.json

💡 You can also use the existing Firebase config in the project temporarily, but it's not maintained.

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📌 Notes

• All user-generated content and interactions are powered by Firebase in real time.
• This is a clone-like app intended for learning and demonstrating Firebase integration with modern Android development practices.

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📄 License

This project is open-source and available under the MIT License.

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