The-Real-Jigsaw

This is an awesome and a next level Jigsaw puzzle game that you have never seen. The game contains three modes: World Mode, Custom Mode and Special Mode. The World Mode allows the user to create Jigsaw puzzle of the real world. The users may either use the rear camera to create a puzzle of the real world or the front camera of their android phone to create a Jigsaw puzzle of their face in various modes like 3x3, 4x4 or 5x5. The Custom Mode allows the user to play the game just like a conventional Jigsaw game. The Special Mode allows the user to apply various filters like Green, Blue, Red etc. to the images captured by their camera and then create a Jigsaw puzzle out of it. The users may see the list of all puzzles played by them and the corresponding scores in the My Scores section. The Leaderboard contains the high scores of all the users.

Demo

SignIn and Register activities

The Home Activity

Special Mode with various filters

           

Custom Mode

     

World Mode in various grid sizes

        

Leaderboard, My Scores and Winning Activity

     

About the Server

Node.js has been used to build the web server for saving data like their username, password, email for the app. Password has been stored safely after applying a strong hashing algorithm. MongoDB is used to perform the database operations.

Setup and Installation

Download the APK and install it

If you want to install the app through Android Studio, follow the following instructions: Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/r4ksh1t0011/Real-World-Jigsaw

Extra libraries used:

android-gif-drawable for rendering animated GIFs for enhanced visual effects. To use it, insert the following dependency to build.gradle file of your project.

dependencies {
    implementation 'pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.2.22'
}

Note that Maven central repository should be defined eg. in top-level build.gradle like this:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
}
allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
}

Photo Filters SDK for applying Instagram like filters to the user's image in Special Mode. Adding dependency:

dependencies {
    compile 'com.github.zomato:androidphotofilters:1.0.2'
    ...

Volley for posting data such as username,email, scores etc. and rendering the Leaderboard and My Scores

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.android.volley:volley:1.2.0'
    ...