Gym Masters

Overview

The application manages various data types including user profiles, posts, comments, exercises, workouts, likes, and social connections. It employs a hybrid approach using:

1. Cloud Firestore: Primary remote NoSQL database for dynamic, structured data like user information, posts, comments, likes, follows, workouts, and hashtags. Used for real-time updates where needed.
2. Firebase Authentication: Handles user authentication (signup, sign-in, session management).
3. Firebase Storage: Stores user-uploaded media like profile pictures, post images, and workout cover images.
4. Room Database: Local persistence library for:
   • Caching large datasets fetched initially (Exercises, Body Parts, Equipment, Targets).
   • Managing offline data or user-specific saves (Saved Workouts, Saved Exercises - based on flags/tables).
   • Handling optimistic UI updates and synchronization for actions like Likes (CachedLike table).
5. External API (ExerciseDB): Used by ExerciseRepository to fetch the initial, comprehensive list of exercises during first app launch.

Note: On instruction on how to setup the Firebase project, please refer to the Firebase Project Setup.

Note: To get a better understanding of how app and database is structured, please refer to App Structure.

App Feature Showcase

This section highlights some of the core features of the Gym Masters app.

1. User Authentication

• Sign In to access your account.

  

2. Discover New Users

• Explore new users in the community.

  

3. Browse Exercises

• Browse the catalog of exercises.

  

4. Workout Details

• View detailed information about workouts

  

5. Exercise Details

• Explore detailed information about exercises.

  

6. User Profiles

• View profiles

  

7. Explore Workouts

• Explore different workouts

  

8. Post Feed

• View workout feed.

  

9. Interact with Posts

• Like and comment on posts.