Konnekt

A real-time chat application for Android focused on reliable messaging and a clean user experience. See the demo here.

✨ Features

💬 Real-Time Messaging – Send and receive messages instantly with live updates.

✉️ Flexible Messaging – Send messages using text, images, or voice recordings.

👥 Multiple Chat Types – Supports personal chats, group chats, and chat rooms.

🟢 Online Status – See when users are online or offline in real time.

🔔 Push Notifications – Get notified about new messages and reply directly from notifications.

📱 Modern UI with Jetpack Compose – Clean, responsive, and easy to navigate interface.

📥 Installation

🔹 Requirements

• Android Studio.
• Android device running Android 8.0 (Oreo) or higher.

🔥 Firebase Cloud Messaging

1. Create a project in the Firebase Console.
2. Add an Android app to the Firebase project and set the package name to nrr.konnekt.debug (debug) or nrr.konnekt (release).
3. Download the google-services.json file and place it under app/ directory.
4. Enable Cloud Messaging in the Firebase Console.

☁️ Server

Read the Supabase setup guide to configure the default Supabase server, or use a custom server by implementing classes in the core/domain module within a new module under core/network module, then add it as a dependency in the core/data Gradle build file.

dependencies {
    implementation(projects.konnekt.core.network.<your module name>)
}

Remove the default Supabase implementation:

implementation(projects.konnekt.core.network.supabase)

🔹 Debug Build

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/kite1412/android-konnekt.git

2. Open the downloaded repository in Android Studio.

3. Simply click run (▶️) button at the top of the Android Studio to install and launch the app.

🔹 Release Build (preferred for smaller apk size)

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/kite1412/android-konnekt.git

2. Open the downloaded repository in Android Studio.

3. Navigate to Build > Generate Signed APP Bundle / APK.

4. Select APK to build signed APK.

5. Choose an existing .jks file or create a new one to sign the APK.

6. Select release as Build Variants then Create, wait for the APK file generation to complete.

7. In project's root directory, run following command:

   adb install app/release/app-release.apk