LitChat

The final project of the mobile applications subject was to create a chat app with some basic functions for the user.

It was done by using firebase for the authentication and firebase realtime for the database.

The user is able to start a new conversation with another user of the app, he is also able to create a group and add participants.

Proxmox server

Proxmox is an open source server management platform for virtualization. It integrates the KVM hypervisor and Linux Containers.

I chose this OS because of the ability to use the LXC (linux containers) which allows you to save a lot of space and resources if you want to have one different virtualization for every functionality.

When I created the server I had no way of connecting to it when I was on a different network, so I created two VPNs. One works with the default configuration of OpenVPN (port 1194 UDP) and the other one works with a custom configuration to avoid being blocked in some restricted networks (port 443 TCP).

I also created a container where I have PI-Hole, which allows me to block the addresses I don't want my computer connects to (it is basically a DNS blocker).

Finally my last favorite container is Nextcloud, which is a private cloud (similar to OneDrive, Google Drive, ...).

DYMA cinema

When I first started to create this app I knew nothing about Kotlin or graphical interfaces for mobile applications, but having to research that much to do this application made me to learn a lot about android app development.

The app works by connecting to a server which has an API of a database with a lot of movies with a lot of information information such as actors, genres, description, ... but the posters come from OMDb API.

The user can see a film and its information, search for a specific movie, update scrolling down to see more movies, editing the information of a movie and creating a new movie with all its information.