Build Social Networks & Apps with Java

Power the backbone of your Java Social Network with the Stream Activity Feed API and Java client. Speed up your development with feeds as a service.

Build Social Networks with Java

Whether you want to build a news feed like Twitter, Instagram, Spotify or Facebook we have you covered. Stream's API enables you to create, scale and personalize your news feeds and activity streams.

Stream supports feeds for millions of social apps. Java is great for building social networks and we want to make it as simple as possible to leverage Stream Feeds in your social app.

Working with Stream in the Java language

Java is a language and that is widely used in enterprise systems and web applications. It has been around since the mid-nineties and it is actually the first programming language learned by some of Stream's development team.

Java can be found in use just about everywhere on earth thanks to its place at the heart of the open source Android mobile operating system. Nowadays it is an extremely popular language for both rookie developers and veterans at large internet companies like Google.

Scalability

Java was built for Object Oriented Programming from the outset. This gives the language a consistent feel and makes it both easy to learn and suitable for building complex applications like social media networks and e-commerce apps. The platform conveniently includes a rich suite of built-in libraries which help when coding multi-user web applications and integrating third-party Web APIs such as Stream.

Framework

Although in the early days it was not exactly easy to code, deploy, and host Java web applications, it's now quite straightforward. PaaS providers like Heroku, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform make it cost effective and easy to scale Java applications. So it's a smart choice.

Getting started: open source API Client

Our Java SDK is stream-sdk-java. It requires Java 17 or newer.

We publish releases to Maven Central. Contributions in the form of issues, feature suggestions and pull requests are most welcome.

Give us feedback!

Did you find this tutorial helpful in getting you up and running with your project? Either good or bad, we're looking for your honest feedback so we can improve.
Thank you for your feedback

We appreciate your feedback and will get back to you within 5 working days.

Start building in-app feeds for free.

Add Chat to my app: getstream.io/SKILL.md

The fastest way to build with Stream. Start a new project or improve an existing one. Full CLI and documentation integration out of the box.


Ask your agent:

/stream Build me a Social App with Feeds and Moderation.
/stream Any livestream calls running?