Life Checkpoint 🏁

Capture, Share, and Connect Through Life's Milestones LifeCheckpoint is a unique social platform that allows users to document and share significant moments in their lives, inspired by the viral "Internet Checkpoint" concept. With LifeCheckpoint, you can:

• 📸 Create Checkpoints
• 🌈 Categorize Your Experiences
• 🌍 Connect Globally
• 🔍 Filter and Explore
• 👍 Engage and Interact
• 📊 Track Satisfaction
• 🔄 Add Updates

Whether it's a milestone in love, family, career, or any aspect of life, LifeCheckpoint helps you create a living diary of your journey and connect with others along the way.

Install and test the app below 👇

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About

Life Checkpoint draws its inspiration from the "Internet Checkpoint" phenomenon that originated on YouTube, popularized by creator taia777. The concept of an internet checkpoint - a digital space where people can leave their mark and return to reflect on their past - resonated deeply with viewers worldwide.

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This app aims to capture the spirit of connection and reflection that made the Internet Checkpoint so impactful, fostering a community where personal stories intertwine to create a tapestry of human experiences, while providing a more structured, personal, and interactive experience. Life Checkpoint becomes a living, growing record of individual journeys and shared human experiences.

Features✨

Authentication 🔑

• Sign in with Google
• Sign up and log in using the app's built-in authentication system

Checkpoint Creation and Management 🛠️

• Select from predefined categories or create custom categories
• Real-time image selection and preview
• Animated image reordering when deleting selected images
• Upload updates to existing checkpoints (max 200 characters)
• View checkpoint updates in a thread-style format

Home Feed 🏠

• View checkpoints from all users
• Filter checkpoints by category
• Like/unlike checkpoints in real-time
• Access user profiles directly from checkpoints

Social Interaction 🤝

• Follow/unfollow other users
• Like/unlike checkpoints
• View other users' profiles, checkpoints, and likes

User Profiles 👤

• Customizable profile with changeable username and profile picture
• View checkpoints organized by category
• See liked checkpoints
• View followers and following lists
• Delete own checkpoints
• Unlike previously liked checkpoints

Privacy and Account Management 🔒

 

• Secure login/logout functionality
• Option to change profile picture and username

Media Handling 📸

 

• View last 3 photos from device
• Select photos from gallery
• Take new photos in real-time
• Support for up to 2 images per checkpoint

Real-time Updates ⏱️

 

• Like/unlike and follow/unfollow actions update in real-time
• Immediate visibility of new checkpoints and updates

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🛠 Built With

Architecture and Design Patterns

• MVVM with Clean Architecture: The app follows the Model-View-ViewModel pattern combined with Clean Architecture principles for a scalable and maintainable codebase.

For more information on MVVM with Clean Architecture, check out this detailed guide

Components

• Coroutines - For asynchronous programming and improving performance by handling I/O tasks off the main thread.

• Android Architecture Components - A collection of libraries for robust, testable, and maintainable apps.

  • ViewBinding - For efficient view interactions.
  • DataBinding - To bind UI components in layouts to data sources.
  • LiveData - For observable data holder class.
  • ViewModel - To store and manage UI-related data.
  • Navigation - For in-app navigation.
  • DataStore - For data storage using key-value pairs or typed objects.

• Dagger-Hilt - For dependency injection.

• Glide - An image loading and caching library.

• Lottie for Android - For rendering After Effects animations.

• Firebase

  • Authentication - For user authentication.
  • Firestore - Cloud-hosted NoSQL database.
  • Storage - For file storage.

Other Libraries and Tools

• ViewPager2 - For swipeable views.
• SmoothBottomBar - For a customizable bottom navigation bar..
• CountryCodePicker - For country selection functionality.
• CardStackView - For Tinder-like swipeable cards.
• SweetAlert - For custom alert dialogs.
• DotIndicator - For page indicators in ViewPager.

Build and Deployment

• Gradle for build automation.
• ProGuard for code obfuscation in release builds.
• Keystore for signing the release version.

Compatibility

• Minimum SDK: 26
• Target SDK: 33