Bar Buzz
Bar Buzz 🍻📅🎶
Bar Buzz is a Flutter-based mobile app I developed to help users discover drink specials, live music, and bar events in their local area. Designed with both bar-goers and bar owners in mind, the app provides a seamless experience for exploring and managing nightlife events.
🎯 Project Purpose
The app was built to solve a common problem: people not knowing where the best local deals and events are happening. Bar Buzz allows users to:
- Discover drink, music, and event deals at local bars
- Filter events by category (Drinks, Music, Events)
- Explore today’s and tomorrow’s events
- Access a full calendar of upcoming activities
It also enables bar owners to manage and post their events through a separate account interface.
🛠️ Tech Stack
Mobile App:
- Flutter – Used to build a fast, cross-platform app with a clean and responsive UI
- Dart – For building app logic and managing state
- Firebase – Handled authentication, database (Firestore), and cloud storage
👤 User Roles
🎟️ Regular User:
- Browse events and deals
- Filter content by category
- View bar profiles and location
- Navigate today’s and tomorrow’s events
🏪 Bar Account:
- Post new events with date, time, and category
- Manage calendar of events
- Provide location and contact info for users
🌟 App Features
- Home Page with Filters – Lets users toggle between Drinks, Music, and Events
- Location Page – Shows all local bars on a map
- User Authentication – Firebase Auth for sign-in/sign-up with role distinction
- Event Calendar – View and navigate through all scheduled events
- Today & Tomorrow Highlights – Quick access to immediate activities
👨💻 Development Experience
✅ Firebase Integration:
- Used Firestore for real-time database syncing
- Set up secure, role-based access for users and bar accounts
- Implemented Firebase Auth for user management
✅ UI/UX Design:
- Designed clean navigation for both regular users and bar accounts
- Emphasized quick event access and location discovery
- Maintained consistent theming across views
✅ State Management:
- Handled asynchronous data with
FutureBuilderandStreamBuilder - Ensured smooth interaction between pages and filters
💡 What I Learned
- Flutter best practices like widget tree optimization, reusable components, and responsive layouts
- Firestore data modeling for dynamic event management
- Handling multiple user roles with different UI flows
- Calendar and time-based filtering for improved event navigation
🔥 Challenges Faced
- Structuring Firestore to support two different user types with different capabilities
- Managing real-time updates without performance lag
- Designing a clean UX for filtering and viewing event data
🔗 GitHub Repository
🧠 Final Thoughts
Building Bar Buzz was an exciting experience that combined my interests in mobile development, real-time data handling, and UI/UX design. It pushed me to think critically about how users interact with events and how businesses can efficiently manage them. This project deepened my understanding of Flutter and Firebase and sparked my interest in building more role-based, real-world mobile apps.