https://github.com/nikki1930/basicchatbot

https://github.com/nikki1930/basicchatbot

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nikki1930/basicchatbot
• Owner: Nikki1930
• Created: 2025-04-09T12:17:38.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-04-09T12:31:19.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-09T13:32:35.533Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Kotlin
• Size: 104 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# 🤖 BasicChatBot

A simple Kotlin-based Android chatbot app powered by **Google's Gemini API**, with built-in **chat memory** for contextual conversations.

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## ✨ Features

- 💬 Real-time chat interface

- 🧠 **Context-aware memory** — remembers previous messages to carry context

- 🔗 Gemini API integration for smart, conversational responses

- 📋 **Selectable & copyable messages** — tap and hold to copy any chat text

- 📱 Clean and minimal UI built with Android best practices

- ⚙️ Kotlin + Jetpack components

- 🌐 Internet connectivity check + API error handling

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## 🛠️ Tech Stack

- **Language:** Kotlin

- **API:** Google Gemini (via REST calls)

- **Architecture:** MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel)

- **Build Tool:** Gradle (KTS)

- **IDE:** Android Studio

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## 📚 What I Learned Working on BasicChatBot taught me a lot about:

- 🧩 Integrating third-party APIs — setting up and calling Google’s Gemini API efficiently.  

- 🧠 Handling chat memory — preserving context for natural conversation flow.  

- 🎯 State management in Android — especially using ViewModel and LiveData to update the UI reactively.  

- 💡 Designing user-friendly UIs — like enabling message selection and making conversations feel intuitive.  

- 🔒 Best practices for handling API keys — like storing them securely using local.properties.  

- 🛠️ GitHub repo management — including commits, pushing code, and creating a clean public repo.  

- 🐞 Improving debugging skills — especially with network calls and response parsing.

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## 🚀 Future Enhancements

- 🎙️ Voice input support  

- 🌐 Multi-language chat