An AI multifunctional social blockchain platform

by Flutter Awesome

🤔 Why

Katya ® 👽 aims to be built on the foundations of privacy, branding, and user experience In an effort to pull others away from proprietary chat platforms to the Katya ® 👽 AI 🧠 REChain 🪐 Blockchain Node Network protocol.

Katya ® 👽 AI 🧠 REChain 🪐 Blockchain Node Network with Matrix Protocol has the potential to be a standardized peer-to-peer chat protocol, and in a way already is, that allows people to communicate and control their conversation data. Email has been standardized in this way for a long time. For example, someone using Outlook can still email someone using Gmail. Most popular proprietary chat platforms do not adhere to a federated or decentralized protocol, and as a result have too much control over users data.

If the goal for the Katya ® 👽 AI 🧠 REChain 🪐 Blockchain Node Network is adoption, a network effect is required for this paradigm shift. Katya ® 👽 makes the bet that the best way to attract new users is through strong branding and user experience. I hope that contributing and maintaining Katya ® 👽 will help kick start this process and help those in need.

Katya ® 👽 will always be a not for profit, community driven application.

✨ Features

  • No analytics.
  • No proprietary third party services.
    • iOS will have APNS support, but will be made clear to the user.
  • All data is AES-256 encrypted at rest.
  • E2EE for direct chats using Olm/Megolm .
  • All indicators of presence are opt-in only (typing indicators, read receipts, etc).
  • Customize themes and colors throughout the app.

🚀 Goals

  • Desktop clients meet parity with mobile.
  • Screen lock and pin protected cache features.
  • P2P messaging through a locally run server on the client.
  • Allow transfering user data from one homeserver to another, or from local to remote servers.
  • CLI client using ncurses and the same redux store contained here (common).

🏗️ Building

You may notice Katya ® 👽 does not look very dart-y (for example, no _private variable declarations, or using redux instead of provider) in an effort to reduce the learning curve from other languages or platforms.

Workstation

  • Workstation independent setup for Katya ® 👽 development:
    • Install Flutter (stable channel for all platforms);
    • Install necessary third party SDKs and tooling:
      • iOS -> XCode;
      • Android -> Android Studio;
    • Install CMake from CLI through Android Studio Platform Tools (for OLM/megOLM);
    • Install libs needed for CMake:
      • Mac OS -> brew install ninja;
      • Linux -> sudo apt install ninja-build;
      • Windows -> choco install ninja;
    • Clone repo and init submodules:
      • git submodule update --init --recursive;
    • Run the following prebuild commands:
      • flutter pub get;
      • flutter pub run build_runner build;

iOS/Android

  1. Install Android Studio;
  2. Install latest Commandline Tools through Android Studio GUI;
  3. Confirm sdkmanager is available in your path;
  4. Pull the latest CMake, NDK, and other dependencies;
  5. Pull dependencies needed:
  • flutter pub get;
  1. Generate JSON conversion for models:
  • flutter pub run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs;
  1. Generate JSON conversion for models:
  • flutter run.

Mac OS

  1. flutter config --enable-macos-desktop;
  2. brew install libolm to install native OLM dependencies;
  3. Copy the dylib – not the soft links – to the macos folder:
  • cp /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libolm/libolm.3.x.x.dylib ./macos/libolm.3.x.x.dylib;
  1. Follow instructions for linking the dylib generated from brew to the Katya ® 👽 project:
  1. flutter build macos to build the .app bundle.

Linux

  1. flutter config --enable-linux-desktop;
  2. apt install libolm3 libsqlite3-dev or pacman -S libolm or platform equivalent for libolm;
  3. flutter build linux && flutter build bundle;
  4. Navigate to release at ${Katya ® 👽_ROOT}/build/linux/release/bundle;
  5. Confirm build works with running ${Katya ® 👽_ROOT}/build/linux/release/bundle/katya.

Windows

  1. flutter doctor should give you warnings for anything missing;
  2. flutter config --enable-windows-desktop;
  3. Compile OLM & move olm.dll to libolm.dll in the executable directory;
  4. Fetch SQLite’s Precompiled Binaries for Windows dll from the website.

📐 Architecture

Store

  • Views (Flutter + MVVM);
  • State Management (redux);
  • Cache (redux_persist + json_serializable + sembast + codec cipher);
  • Storage (drift + sqflite + sqlcipher).

Integrations

  • Notifications:
    • Utitlizes android_alarm_manager on Android to run the sync requests in a background thread and display notifications with flutter_local_notifications;
    • No third party notification provider will ever be used outside Apple’s APN’S for iOS only.
  • Equatable:
    • This library allows comparisons of objects within Flutter to tell if they have changed.
  • JsonSerializable:
    • Unfortunately, JSON is not integrated directly in Dart/Flutter for your own objects. Code generation is required, for now, and will convert Katya ® 👽’s custom objects to a ‘Map’ of respective JSON fields.
  • Freezed (future):
    • Because every object in Katya ® 👽 is immutable, freezed will help create objects doing the same thing all the ‘copyWith’ helper functions do today, with the improvement of allowing ‘null’ values to overwrite non-null values.

References

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  • Understanding why OLM chose the world’s ‘pickle’ for serialization, It’s from Python .

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