Build a Ridesharing Android App - Part 1
Getting started is sometimes the hardest part.
The inspiration for this app comes from a viewer of my YouTube channel who contacted me on LinkedIn. The app will be based on YASSIF.
Some of the technologies we'll use include the following.
- Room - used to store ride and location information offline so it will (partially) work without internet
- Kotlin - my preferred language of choice, and officially endorsed as a first-class language in Android
- Android Studio - the official IDE for creating Android apps, everything we need -- and free!
- XML - how good design is created, also with ConstraintLayout
- LiveData - from JetPack
- ViewModel - from JetPack
- WorkManager - from JetPack
- Android Architecture Components - aka Jetpack
For this series, we will use either AWS or Firebase. Both offer affordable, scalable and performant backend solutions while staying below $10/month.