Aura is an intelligent, full-stack mobile application designed to combat information overload and create personalized, high-quality learning paths for any topic.
In today's world, learning a new skill is overwhelming. You are faced with a sea of random YouTube videos, blog posts, and expensive courses, with no clear path from beginner to expert. It's difficult to know where to start and what to learn next, leading to frustration and abandoned goals.
Aura acts as your personal AI mentor. Simply tell the app what you want to learn, and our advanced, multi-step AI agent gets to work. It deconstructs the topic, searches for the best free resources on the web, and curates them into a logical, week-by-week curriculum tailored just for you. With Aura, you get a clear, structured path to mastery.
- Intelligent Path Generation: Our AI agent understands your learning goals and creates a structured, easy-to-follow plan.
- AI-Powered Curation: We don't just search; our agent analyzes and selects the best, most relevant resources from around the web, using a two-step "Search and Curate" workflow.
- Secure User Authentication: Full email/password and Google Sign-In support, powered by Appwrite. Includes a robust OTP email verification flow.
- Save & View Plans: Users can save their favorite generated plans to their personal account and view them anytime.
- Polished Native Experience: A beautiful, responsive, and user-friendly native Android application built with the latest Jetpack Compose standards.
- Web Frontend: A fully functional web app built with React, deployed on Netlify, for universal accessibility.
Aura is a full-stack application built with a modern, decoupled architecture.
- Language: Kotlin
- UI: Jetpack Compose
- Architecture: MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) with a Repository Pattern
- Networking: Retrofit
- Dependencies: Lottie (for animations), Jetpack Navigation
- Framework: React
- Deployment: Netlify
- Framework: Python with FastAPI
- Deployment: Google Cloud Run for scalability and management.
- AI Orchestration:
- Google Generative AI (Gemini 2.5 Flash): Used for all reasoning tasks, including deconstructing topics and curating resources.
- Tavily Search API : Used for all web searches to find high-quality, relevant learning materials.
- Appwrite :
- Appwrite Auth: Manages all user accounts, including Email/Password, Google Sign-In, and OTP verification.
- Appwrite Databases: Provides the persistent cloud database for storing all user-saved learning plans.
The core of Aura is its intelligent agent, which follows a four-step process to create a high-quality learning plan:
- Deconstruction: The user's topic is sent to a Generative AI model (Gemini) to be broken down into four logical, weekly sub-topics.
- Search: For each sub-topic, the Tavily search API is used to find relevant, high-quality learning resources like articles and videos.
- Self-Correction: An AI-powered sanity check evaluates the initial search results. If they aren't relevant for a beginner, the agent refines and re-runs the search query.
- Curation: The final, validated search results are passed to the AI model one last time to select the top 2-3 resources for each week and format them into a clean JSON response.
This agentic approach ensures the generated plans are more relevant and higher quality than a single, simple API call.
- Android Studio (latest version)
- Python 3.10+
- An active
.envfile in theaura-backenddirectory with valid API keys for:GOOGLE_API_KEYTAVILY_API_KEYAPPWRITE_PROJECT_IDAPPWRITE_API_KEYAPPWRITE_DATABASE_ID
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Backend:
cd aura-backend python3 -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt python3 main.py
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Android App:
- Open the
aura-androidfolder in Android Studio. - Update the
BASE_URLinApiClient.ktto point to your local machine's IP address. - Build and run the app on a physical device or emulator.
- Open the