Thinking about adding Social Networking features to your app? Doing that nowadays can be cumbersome as you have to build a proper API backend, host it and consume it from your app, Does that sound a lot for an app developer ? yes it does.

You might have heard of Firebase, a BaaS that can help you add real time communication and data storage capabilities to your app, where your data model will be represented in JSON.

Socialbase is a simple JSON file that you can drop into your Firebase collection (inspired by Tapglue) , this will create the minimum data structure to enable social networking in your app.

Excited? Download the file and enjoy!

The following collections are available in the current Socialbase structure:

• Users: List of users
• Search: Basic users search index
• Events: List of events(bookmarks, saves ..etc)
• Posts: List of users' posts
• Like: List of users' likes
• Comments: List of users' comments
• Connections: List of users' connections

Use Firebase Android or iOS SDKs to consume and manage the data.

Work in progress.

Here is a list of ideas that can be useful for contributors

• Adding documention
• Add third party search providers (eg: Elasticsearch)
• Android and iOS app samples
• Tutorials