a decent place of creation of recording and uploading just speed coded in 30 minutes or so

nirvana-ios/Views/InnerCircle/CircleGridView.swift

@@ -132,7 +132,14 @@ struct CircleGridView: View {
                                 .onEnded { gestureValue in
                                     guard case .second(true, let drag?) = gestureValue else { return }
                                     
-                                    self.recordingGestureDeactived()
+                                    // stop recording
+                                    print("stopped recording")
+                                    
+                                    self.selectedFriendIndex = nil
+                                    
+                                    self.innerCircleVM.stopRecording(senderId: self.authSessionStore.user!.id!, receiverId: friend.id!)
+                                    
+//                                    self.recordingGestureDeactived()
                                 }
                         )
 //                        .simultaneousGesture(
@@ -368,12 +375,8 @@ extension CircleGridView {
         self.innerCircleVM.startRecording()
     }
     
+    // TODO: fill in here
     private func recordingGestureDeactived() {
-        // stop recording
-        print("stopped recording")
         
-        self.selectedFriendIndex = nil
-        
-        self.innerCircleVM.stopRecording()
     }
 }

nirvana-ios/Views/InnerCircle/InnerCircleViewModel.swift

@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ class InnerCircleViewModel: ObservableObject {
     
     private var audioLocalUrl: URL?
     
+    let cloudStorageService = CloudStorageService()
+    let firestoreService = FirestoreService()
+    
     func startRecording() {
         let recordingSession = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance()
         
@@ -51,18 +54,31 @@ class InnerCircleViewModel: ObservableObject {
         }
     }
     
-    func stopRecording(){
+    // sender should be current user
+    // receiver is the person we are sending to
+    func stopRecording(senderId:String, receiverId:String) {
         audioRecorder.stop()
         isRecording = false
         
         if self.audioLocalUrl != nil {
             // upload to the cloud storage
-            
-            // store in firestore for receiving user to automatically get notified
+            self.cloudStorageService.uploadLocalUrl(localFileUrl: self.audioLocalUrl!) {[weak self] audioDataUrl in
+                if audioDataUrl == nil {
+                    print("there was an error in uploading file")
+                    return
+                }
+                
+                let newMessage = Message(receiverId: receiverId, senderId: senderId, listenCount: 0, audioDataUrl: audioDataUrl!.absoluteString)
+                
+                // create a new message in firestore with the url for receiving user to automatically get notified
+                self?.firestoreService.createMessage(message: newMessage) {[weak self] res in
+                    print(res)
+                }
+            }
             
             // delete local audio file from user's phone so that it doesn't get crazy
             print("stopped recording: file about to get deleted from \(getTemporaryDirectory()) with filename: \(self.audioLocalUrl)")
-                        
+            
             try? FileManager.default.removeItem(at: self.audioLocalUrl!)
         }
     }