Chatter - Toy Social Network

A brief view of the project

Chatter is a GUI-driven application which simulates a social network, with features like logging in, customizing your profile, making friends and sending messages to them.

The application is implemented using GRASP principles, layered architecture, Object Oriented Programming concepts, design patterns (Factory, Singleton, etc.), Graph Theory concepts (longest distance between nodes in a cyclic graph, etc.) and SQL queries (extracting the common friends from a table containing 2 user identifiers using a single query, etc.).

The development of the application was made using Java (backend), Gradle (dependencies), JavaFX (user interface), Cascade Style Sheets (designing the user interface) and PostgreSQL (data persistency).

Some of the features

• small presentation video

• custom responsive stage, using the StageStyle.TRANSPARENT stage style from JavaFX and a ResizeHelper found on StackOverflow, in which I added a function to allow the maximization of the stage, to not allow the user to resize the window if maximized.

• login page:

• register page:

• home page (+ responsive toolbar):

• friends page:

• community page:

• notifications page:

• messages page:

• profile page (with the hue having the value of the hashing of each user's UUID):

• settings page:

+ a bunch of animations (as seen in the video above)

Credits

• artworks
• avatars
• icons
• faculty course