Tutorials
Building a Live Shopping App with One-Shot AI
The design process behind one-shot generating VinylStream, a live shopping app for buying and selling vinyl - and why a good design document, not the fanciest model, is what makes AI app generation actually work.
Build On-Device Reply Suggestions with Apple's Foundation Models & Stream Chat
Build on-device suggested replies in a SwiftUI chat app with Apple's Foundation Models and Stream Chat. Generation runs entirely on the device: no token cost, no network round-trip.
Build a Voice Agent That Calls to Confirm Fraud Alerts
Build a Python voice agent with Vision Agents that places an outbound call to a cardholder, reads back a suspicious transaction, and either clears it or freezes the card - using Deepgram, an LLM, Cartesia, and Twilio.
MyOutDesk Cut Chat Code 50% Moving Off PubNub
When PubNub overages and missing messages hit a 2,500-person workforce, MyOutDesk moved to Stream Chat in under two weeks and cut its chat code in half. Here is what happened.
How Stream Chat Authentication Works: User Tokens, Refresh, and Secret Handling
Stream Chat authentication works by having your backend sign short-lived JWTs with your API secret. This guide covers the four credentials in play, how to wire token refresh with a tokenProvider, and why your API secret must never leave the server.
Build a Stream Chat App With Xcode 26.3's Coding Agent
Xcode 26.3 ships with a built-in coding agent backed by Claude. Pair it with Stream's Agent Skills and you can build a working SwiftUI chat app from a single goal-level prompt - channel list, message thread, and composer - then iterate without leaving the IDE. This is a build log of exactly that, including the WebSocket race condition the agent diagnosed by reading the SDK source.
How to Build a Background Removal Tool with Segment Anything & Vision Agents
A step-by-step guide to building a real-time background removal tool with SAM 2, YOLO, and Vision Agents. Runs on a CPU, no GPU required.
Stream Skills: Build a Marketplace App To Buy, Sell, and Shop Online
Let's build an online marketplace platform that enables safe, secure buying and selling, combining Stream's AI agent skills for chat, activity feed, moderation, and video into a unified product. What You Can Build Agent Skills improve developers' productivity and help them integrate features more quickly and build complex applications from scratch. Stream now has skills
