Overdrive - A messaging app for android

Duration: December 2015 (4 days Sprint)

Role: Back end API designing , Database Schema Designing, Android App development

This app was designed when there were very few chatting applications popular among people. I noticed that people generally used Whatsapp with music playing in background, but in 2015 affordable smartphones had very little RAM (512 MB or less) which made this multitasking difficult to handle for the device. So, I built this awesome app in a 4 day coding sprint, which can both be used to chat and play music at the same time, reducing the RAM requirement. Back then Kotlin was not in the game of android development, so I used good old Java to build this app. The back end was handled using PHP and MySql.

Tools & Technologies Used

  • Android Studio
  • SDK 21
  • Java
  • JSONĀ 
  • Php
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • AVD