Building an Uber Clone in Jetpack Compose
Blog post from Stream
This application serves as a rideshare platform featuring basic user authentication, ride request management, and real-time location tracking using a combination of Firebase, Google Maps, and Stream's Chat SDK. It employs an MVVM architecture with a preference for ViewModels that manage presentation logic to simplify Views. The app includes features like user profile management and driver-passenger communication, designed as a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for learning purposes. It utilizes both Compose and XML for UI development, leveraging the strengths of each for different application features. A state machine approach is adopted for handling asynchronous data streams, facilitating a reactive UI that responds to various events like location updates and ride status changes. The application demonstrates the use of channels in Stream's Chat SDK to manage ride data and enable real-time communication, while navigation and dependency injection are efficiently handled by the Simple-Stack library. User data management is integrated with Firebase for authentication and Stream for user data, with a focus on maintaining simplicity and scalability.