Cove – A Mock Ethical Marketplace

Cove is my passion project of a mock, curated marketplace of ethical businesses and quality producers. I work on this project to explore native iOS Development, UX/UI design, mobile CI/CD, and the Google Cloud Platform with Firebase.

About

This repository contains the source files for the Xcode project.

• Supports iOS 16+
• Uses Firebase for backend
  • Firebase Auth
  • Firestore
  • Cloud Storage

Design Goals

• Log in with popular social providers (Ex. Google, Facebook, etc).
• Secure account creation with Firebase Authentication.
• Support for wide range of varying products.
  • Coffee
  • Music
  • Apparel
  • Home
  • Beverages
  • Tea
• Persistent login state.
• Fetch data in real-time from Google Cloud Platform.
• Search products and available filters.
• Pages for individual stores/businesses/artists.
• Stock checking and shipping calculation.
• Product and producer promotions.
• Product reviews and ratings.
• Ability to favorite products.
• Friend system for seeing what they’ve reviewed and favorited.
• Personalized product recommendations (Based on favorites, and purchase history).

Signup Walkthrough

• Left is signing up with a Social Provider (Google). Facebook sign up is also supported. Once I get an Apple Developer Account, Apple sign up will also be supported.
• Right is signing up with an email (Firebase).
• Both methods will create a user entry with Firebase Authentication.

Home and Product Details Walkthrough

• This is what is currently in place for the Home view and clicking to view a product.

GIFs created with Kap.

More to come!

Everything seen so far is subject to change overtime as I move along with development.

A simple roadmap for Cove can be found at https://github.com/users/danicajiao/projects/2.

GitHub

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