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Can you imagine viewing your sales chat transcripts in real time from your sales CRM? Would your chat applications improve with more timely handling of customer chat inquiries? This post demonstrates how to leverage the powerful Stream Chat API to take action with a chat transcri…

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Did you know you can use Swift in the backend to build a chatbot and deploy it to AWS? We’ve recently published an Open Source project called Swift Lambda to make the process easier. In this tutorial, we’ll use Swift Lambda to build a chatbot that can reply to user messages autom…

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This tutorial will explore how to make a chat widget that connects to the HubSpot CRM to (1) create or update a HubSpot CRM Contact with the user’s info, and (2) save chat transcripts in HubSpot. We’ll use the versatile Stream Chat client and its webhooks to accomplish this. The …

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In this tutorial, we’ll integrate chat in an e-commerce app using Stream Chat’s Swift SDK. It’s crucial for buyers that may need immediate communication for payments, delivery status, last-minute changes, and refunds. Those screenshots show a button leading to a chat screen where…

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This post will demonstrate how to configure a Lead creation in Zendesk from a customer inquiry via a landing page/sales chat widget. We’ll build a full-screen experience that can be embedded on your homepage or landing pages. Our chat experience will start with a simple user regi…

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In this tutorial, learn how to build a Stream chat widget that connects to the HubSpot CRM to automatically create a new contact when a customer initiates a chat. This widget, backed by the Stream chat API, can be easily embedded to your site as a chat widget for sales, support, …

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In this tutorial, we’ll build a TeleHealth iOS app where gym members and instructors can interact in an online virtual fitness class using Stream Chat, to deliver fully featured chat components, and Dolby.io, to provide quality audio and video. By the end, we’ll have an applicati…

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In this tutorial, we’ll build an iOS app for livestream events where attendees and speakers can interact in a virtual conference room using Stream Chat, to deliver fully featured chat components, and Dolby.io, to provide quality live-streamed audio and video for large audiences. …

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In this tutorial, we’ll build an iOS app where students and teachers can interact in a virtual classroom using Stream Chat, to deliver fully featured chat components, and Dolby.io, to provide quality audio and video. By the end, we’ll have an application similar to the screenshot…

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Android Studio makes it easy to push changes to your favorite Open Source, professional, or personal projects on GitHub. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to use GitHub with Android Studio. We’ll use an Open Source contribution for context. Android developers use Open Source proj…

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In this tutorial, we’ll build an in-app support system using Stream Chat’s Swift SDK, which you can quickly integrate in new or existing apps. It’s crucial for users that may need immediate information or assistance in completing a task. It’s frequently present in banking, e-comm…

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In this tutorial, we’ll build the basis of a Telemedicine App for iOS using Stream Chat, to deliver fully featured chat components, and Dolby.io, to deliver quality audio and video. Both solutions provide HIPAA compliance. By the end, we’ll have an application similar to the scre…

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In Part 1 of this series, we created a simple chat application for iOS and macOS using SwiftUI and Stream Chat’s Swift SDK, but it only had a single channel. In this tutorial, we’ll improve on it by implementing a channels screen with three features: join, create, and search chan…

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In this post, we’ll create a simple social network, called "The Stream", that allows a user to post messages to followers. The app will allow a user to post a message to their followers. Stream’s Activity Feed API, combined with Android, makes it straightforward to build this sor…

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In this tutorial, we’ll integrate video chat into an iOS application. To do this, we integrate Dolby.io’s Interactivity APIs, formally known as Voxeet, into our application. Video chat can easily be integrated with Stream Chat for a seamless communication experience. Note: the li…

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In this tutorial, we’ll use Stream Chat and Dolby.io’s Client SDK to build an app that lets you create a room that streams the contents of your screen and your voice for a large number of viewers and allows them to interact with each other via chat. It will be as simple as possib…

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In this tutorial, we’ll build a simple chat application for iOS and macOS using SwiftUI and Stream Chat’s Swift SDK. Although Stream provides a suite of UIKit components that work out-of-the-box, we can use use the low-level client to develop custom components with SwiftUI. If yo…

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Live streaming apps have become the most popular type of application in the App Stores. Big companies, like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter, have, at least, one app offering this kind of service. For example: YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and Periscope. All of those have a co…

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Apple’s recent release of Mac Catalyst makes it possible for iOS and macOS apps to share mostly the same native codebase. While in the past, a desktop and mobile cross-platform codebase commonly meant a web app packaged in a portable format, now it can be achieved with native cod…

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In this tutorial, we’ll build encrypted chat on iOS using Swift. We’ll combine Stream Chat and Virgil Security. Both Stream Chat and Virgil make it easy to create a solution with high security with all the features you expect. These two services allow developers to integrate chat…

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As we seek to still connect with friends and family while we all #stayhome, Live Streaming and Video Conferencing have become insanely popular. These technologies have always been great tools for connecting with coworkers and loved ones who are not located nearby; however, we are…

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This article is the fourth installment of a tutorial series focused on how to create a full-stack application using Flask, React/Redux and Stream. In this article, we are going to start creating, editing, and fetching collections, or groups of links, for our web application. Be s…

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In this tutorial, we will go through the process of creating a realtime messaging application using Django and Angular. We’ll build a custom chat interface and then use Stream’s client to allow realtime messaging in our application. The gif below shows how the final application w…

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In the third part of our series, we’re building group chat into our social application. This allows users to chat with multiple people at the same time. We leverage Stream Chat to do the heavy lifting. This post assumes you’ve gone through part 1 and part 2. Using our code from p…

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In the second part of our series, we’ll implement direct messaging between users by integrating Stream Chat. This post assumes you’ve followed along with part 1. Leveraging our code from part 1, we’ll modify the backend to generate a Stream Chat frontend token so our mobile appli…