Create — Android

Native Jetpack Compose client for Create, a mobile-first AI image and video generation studio built on the kie.ai model APIs. Write or dictate a prompt, attach reference images, pick a model, generate, then browse, share and export the results.

Android sibling of create-ios: same product, same backend (Next.js API routes over PocketBase), same frozen HTTP contract (CONTRACTS.md).

Architecture

• Two screens — Create, a chat-like composer (prompt, voice dictation, reference thumbnails, model and settings bottom sheets) above an inverted feed of recent generations; and Gallery, a grid with a full-screen lightbox offering share, one-click upscale and cutout, save and delete.
• Asynchronous generation flow — generations are created server-side and reconciled by polling plus a Firebase Cloud Messaging notification when the media is ready and repatriated.
• Data-driven model catalogue (data/catalog/) — models and their parameters are data, so the composer builds its controls from the catalogue instead of hardcoding a screen per model.
• Networking (core/net/) — Retrofit and OkHttp with Moshi, an auth interceptor and a token authenticator that transparently refreshes the PocketBase session; tokens are kept in encrypted storage (androidx.security.crypto).
• Manual dependency injection — a plain AppContainer graph rather than a DI framework.
• Media — Coil for images, Media3 ExoPlayer for generated video, MediaStore saving and FileProvider sharing.
• Design — Material 3 Expressive with a custom iridescent accent, shimmer placeholders, shared element transitions between the gallery and the lightbox, haptics.
• Release pipeline — a GitHub Actions workflow builds and uploads to a Play track, with the keystore and Play service account injected as secrets.

Stack

Kotlin, Jetpack Compose (Material 3), Navigation Compose, Retrofit + OkHttp + Moshi, DataStore, Coil, Media3, WorkManager, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Gradle version catalogs, GitHub Actions.

Build

./gradlew assembleDebug
./gradlew installDebug

Requires JDK 17. Backend base URLs are injected as buildConfigField values, so they can be pointed at a test backend. The app requires an account on the hosted backend and public signup is closed, so a clean clone builds and runs but cannot log in.

Status

Not published on the Play Store.

Licence

No licence granted. Published for reading.