Tutorials : Chat

Customizing Stream Chat iOS/Swift App for a Unique Look: A Quick Start Guide

This article demonstrates how to perform basic customizations such as swapping colors, fonts, and icons with assets, color, and typographic styles from your style guide. You can create a free chat trial account to follow along with the tutorial. Resources You can find and download the completed Xcode project on GitHub. This tutorial is for
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Using Stream to Build a Livestream Chat App in Next.js

I always wondered how to create the dynamic chat experience of livestreams, like those found on YouTube, but with an added convenience of allowing anyone to participate without logging in. With Next.js and Stream, I was able to successfully create that experience. In this tutorial, I cover a straightforward approach to create a livestream chat
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Build a Chat App with Node.js

This tutorial will guide you in creating an instant Node-based chat app that runs on a JavaScript server and outside a web browser. First, grab your favorite command-line tool, Terminal or Warp, and a code editor, preferably VS Code and let’s begin. Before You Start Before proceeding with the tutorial, make sure you have the
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Build a Cross-Platform Messaging App with React Native Expo

Building a complete chat messaging app like WhatsApp can take time and effort. There are so many aspects developers need to consider to provide a full and feature-rich messaging experience, such as offline support, media attachment, and more. This tutorial uses Stream Chat from React Native Directory and the Expo framework to create a fully
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Using Generative AI with Flutter

Companion project for this article: https://github.com/GetStream/generative_ai_with_flutter Introduction For the past few years, Generative AI has been one of the most talked-about subjects in the developer world. While this conversation began in the early to mid-2010s with simpler models and fewer people affected, it has grown exponentially, with compute power becoming more easily available on devices
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Build a SwiftUI Voice Messaging App With Stream

What do apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, or even Snapchat all have in common? They allow users chatting with each other to also send short voice messages to each other directly in the chat conversation. In this tutorial, we will look at what it takes to build voice messaging into a simple chat app covering everything
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Build Instant Messaging in a MERN-Based E-commerce App With Stream Chat

Instant messaging has become an integral part of web applications in recent years. The real-time exchange of information helps to cement the users' trust, whether they are customers, merchants, or other stakeholders. This technology has become ubiquitous across many industries, including virtual events, healthcare, and education. However, the complexity surrounding proper in-house implementation was an
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Implementing ChatGPT with Stream Chat

With the advent and increasing popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, many customers wish to implement these solutions to maintain feature parity in the marketplace and provide highly engaging and memorable experiences for their user base. As an industry-leading solution, Stream evolves alongside these market shifts and
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Build an AI Chat Android App With Google’s Generative AI

Google recently introduced its Generative AI platform, featuring a collection of large language models (LLMs) that utilize techniques inspired by AlphaGo. Gemini is an artificial intelligence that generates new content or data from existing sources. These technologies generate realistic and coherent text, images, audio, video, and other media forms, producing entirely synthetic yet believable outputs.
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