Location Sharing App
This is a mobile application to share your realtime location with GPS tracking and stay connected with your friends, families and co-workers.
It is built using Flutter with Firebase and Firestore to handle the authentication of users and data management.
Using the APK
- The pre-built .apk file for the app can be downloaded here.
- Open the file in your android device. If prompted, open using
Google Drive
and thenPackage Installer
. - Give necessary permissions to start the installation and start using the application.
Requirements
If you face an error of missing dependencies, try running flutter pub get
.
Features
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Live Location Sharing between members of a group using Location Markers on Google Maps.
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Form multiple groups with your friends or family easily and share your location with each other.
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Users can login either by creating an account or sign-in using their Google accounts as well.
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Users have an option to edit their name and profile picture after creating an account.
How the Location Sharing Works?
- The device gets its continous location updates from GPS using the Google Maps API.
- Location data for the user is updated in their respective firestore documents, and subsequently in the group documents.
- Other devices sharing goups with the first user read that firebase firestore document and show the marker in the stored location.
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