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Babble

Connect. Share. Babble.

An early, simpler social app for Android with a feed, stories, groups and real-time chat on Firebase. It is discontinued, and the full source is open on GitHub.

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Babble: Connect. Share. Babble.
Type
Open source
Year
—
Role
Created and open-sourced
Platform
Android 4.4+
Status
Open source
Stack
Java, Firebase Auth, Realtime Database, Storage, Cloud Messaging

(01) The problem

Learning how social apps work means building one end to end: accounts, a feed, media and real-time chat.

(02) What we did

Babble was that exercise, finished and published, so others can learn from it or build on it.

What’s inside

  1. 01

    My feed

    Posts, videos and memes from people you follow, with likes, comments and hashtags.

  2. 02

    Stories

    Moments at the top of everyone's feed.

  3. 03

    Groups

    Discover groups and chat inside them.

  4. 04

    Chat

    One-to-one and group messaging in real time.

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