This is a Digital Currency Application displaying market price listing based on trade volume and market capitalization.
This Application allows users to view Cryptocurrency prices and monitor their rise and drop.
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User can Register and create an account.
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User can Login with the credentials used to sign up.
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User can View Lists of Cryptocurrencies with their prices.
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For the prices user can keep track of Hourly (1hr), Daily (24hr) & Weekly (7dy), Percentage Drop or rise.
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(Mainly Needed) Update API Used to the lastest Version released Version 2.
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Attach Dashboard in the navigation drawer to the Activity Displaying Lists of cryptocurrencies (Coin Activity).
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Add Activity View for Favourites and attach it to the Navigation Drawer in favourites section.From favourites users can highlight coins they are interested in or prefer and just get monitor them directly. Drag and drop will be prefered however other methods could be used.
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Add Activity View for User Profile and attach it to the Navigation Drawer. Here users can add their profile and maybe even list crypto's they are interested in.
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Add Daraja API which is a USSD mobile to mobile payment however it only uses Safaricom service provider Sim. this way users can buy cryptocurrencies which will be loaded onto their accounts. It is fast and very effective especially in Kenya. Also very challenging to integrate.
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Add Paypal API for payment this way users will not only be limited to paying using mpesa as not everyone can access Mpesa outside kenya. Other methods better than paypal may also be explored.
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Add About page that will always be updated to inform users what the application is about, and also the offer useful information about the product.The about page will be linked to about section in navigation drawer.
Recently I've had a particularly sparked interest in Digital Currency Specifically cryptocurrency.
If you asked me I believe Blockchain Technology might be the Second best invention after the Internet.
However I might be wrong too. When it comes to technology there is always a complexity to determine it's future as things evolve really quick. So pardon me if you read this 10 years from when I wrote and discover I was terriblly wrong. 😵 My sincerest apologies. 😃
However Lets Talk Code! 💻
This project came to mind after Inspiration by Brian Armstrong's project Bitcoin-Android.
I wanted to challenge myself with code as I try wrap my head around the Cryptocurrency world.
I believe I have achieved that but I still have a long way to go in understanding this masive world as I strive valiently.
A couple of things to get you started:
- Ensure you have Java installed
A simple way to install Java is using sdkman.
Simply follow the instructions to have sdkman installed and install java:
sdk install javaGradle is used as the build tool and can be installed with sdkman:
sdk install gradleAndroid SDK used to provide all the necessary developer tools to build, test, and debug apps for Android in Windows, Mac or Linux.
Android SDK build tools used to debug, build, run and test an Android application.
Some Basic knowlegde useful to understanding the project or just for fun
What is the "Value of Bitcoin" ?
The Value of Bitcoin is actually the trust and utility of the Bitcoin network itself. In reality its just worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
What is "Market Capitalization" and how is it calculated?
Market Capitalization is one way to rank the relative size of a cryptocurrency. It's calculated by multiplying the Price by the Circulating Supply.
Market Cap = Price X Circulating Supply.
What is "Circulating Supply"
Circulating Supply is the best approximation of the number of coins that are circulating in the market and in the general public's hands.
What is "Total Supply"
Total Supply is the total amount of coins in existence right now (minus any coins that have been verifiably burned).
- What is "Max Supply"
Max Supply is the best approximation of the maximum amount of coins that will ever exist in the lifetime of the cryptocurrency.
- Why is the Circulating Supply used in determining the market capitalization instead of Total Supply?
Coins that are locked, reserved, or not able to be sold on the public market are coins that can't affect the price and thus should not be allowed to affect the market capitalization as well. The method of using the Circulating Supply is analogous to the method of using public float for determining the market capitalization of companies in traditional investing.
Photoshop is a photo editing software.
Photoshop was really useful in creating and enhancing photos.
The Logo was designed by photoshop just as many images had to be redesigned to fit in to the application user expirience.
source language.
For dependency management and running tasks.
For providing all the necessary developer tools to build, test, and debug Android applications on Windows, Mac or Linux.
For debugging, building, running and testing an Android applications.
Coin Market Cap is a platform which provides fast, reliable and unified data APIs to cryptocurrency markets.
Coin Market API was used to get price listings on cryptocurrencies based on trade volume and market capitalization.
For more info about the API check out the API Section below.
Was used to authenticate users and register users and ensure user is logged in to run the application
FireBase is a NoSQL cloud database. Data is synced across all clients in realtime, and remains available when your app goes offline. The Firebase Realtime Database is a cloud-hosted database. Data is stored as JSON and synchronized in realtime to every connected client.
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GSON was used in the API to convert Java Objects into JSON and back
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Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It can also be used to convert a JSON string to an equivalent Java object. Gson can work with arbitrary Java objects including pre-existing objects that you do not have source code of.
- OkHttp is a third party library used for sending and receiving HTTP-based network requests.
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Picasso was used to display cryptocurrency logos.
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Picasso is an image library for Android.It caters to image loading and processing. It simplifies the process of displaying images from external locations
- Android Butterknife is a view binding tool that uses annotations to generate boilerplate code for us.
Coin Market API Provides crypto market data endpoints market price listing based on trade volume and market capitalization.
For CryptoByte Gson components were used to parse JSON into Java objects.
Gson is an open source Java library to serialize and deserialize Java objects to JSON.
The benefit you get with GSON is that object mapping can save the time spent writing code.
Click here to Check out 👉 Coin Market API
Ticker
This endpoint displays ticker data for a specific *cryptocurrency. Use the "id" field from the Listings endpoint in the URL.
Global Data
This endpoint displays the global data found at the top of coinmarketcap.com.
Limits
API Endpoints are update every 5 minutes.
Mics
All 'last_updated' fields are unix timestamps
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You will need Internet connection.
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You need to get into the Coin-Base-BlockChain-Android Repository.
Link:-> https://github.com/zecollokaris/CryptoByte-Blockchain-Android
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From there you can access CryptoByte.
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Clone the project.
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get into project folder (cd into project).
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If you have all the Pre-requisites
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Open your Android Studio Editor and run the Application.
All contributions are welcome, from code to documentation to graphics to design suggestions to bug reports. Please use GitHub to its fullest. Whatever you have to offer, we can use it!
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Mobile number: (+254) 798731203
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Email Address: collo.kariss@gmail.com
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github-username: zecollokaris
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.