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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…

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In this post, we’ll be creating a simple social network with SwiftUI, called Stream Flutter, that allows a user to post messages to followers. The app will allow a user to post a message to their followers and view updates from people they follow. Stream’s Activity Feed API, comb…

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In this series of tutorials, we’ll create a simple social network, called The Stream, that allows a user to post messages to followers, chat either 1-on-1 or in groups. Stream’s Activity Feed API and Chat API, combined with Swift, makes it straightforward to build this sort of co…

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"Social logins" are a very popular alternative to creating a login and password for a website or application that is new to a user. With "social login", a user makes use of an existing account, like Google or Facebook, to sign up for or log in to another application. This means u…

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Since April 2020, all apps that use a third-party or social login service are required to offer Sign in with Apple if they want to be accepted in the App Store. In a previous tutorial, we walked through the process of building a simple clone of Apple’s iMessage. In this tutorial,…

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This article is the third 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 finish implementing our authentication flow as well as integrating a basic profile component into our…

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Group chat can get a bit messy, especially if it’s public and anyone can join. Making a group chat invite-only can help manage the content of the group and the sanity of those in it, in addition to preventing spam users and bots. In this tutorial, we’ll be building an invite-only…

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Messaging apps are becoming more and more popular as a means through which to connect with friends and family. They’re convenient and provide an easy and affordable means of communication. A recent study by Statista revealed that the current number of smartphone users in the worl…

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One of the fastest ways to build applications has always been Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails is a feature-packed web development framework that makes it easy for novices and experts alike to easily stand up an application. When you want to add chat to your application, using Stream…

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Language barriers can hinder growth and build a wall between your business and its potential customers, ultimately limiting your market and costing you money. If a customer reaches out to you by chat in German or Spanish, but you don’t understand the language, wouldn’t it be nice…

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Flutter is the latest cross-platform UI toolkit (provided by Google) for building Android, iOS, and even desktop apps that is gaining popularity amongst developers. Stream Chat, on the other hand, is an enterprise-grade chat solution that offers extensive APIs and SDKs to power c…

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Customer support live chat is an incredible tool for collecting valuable feedback from your customers and increasing your website engagement rate. With that said, it can take weeks or even months to build a functional, scalable, reliable real-time chat application. Luckily, Strea…

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Are you thinking of building a chat application in Go? You’ve come to the right place! This post will walk you through everything you need to know to make a chat app with the Stream Chat API and will show a working example that ties all the concepts discussed in this tutorial tog…

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Interest in and application of artificial intelligence and machine learning have been rapidly rising in the last few years. One of the most popular ways in which this interest has manifested is a rise in the use of chatbots. Especially in years past, communicating with a chatbot …

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React Native has a significant footprint in the mobile development world. And with every new release, it gets better and better in terms of development speed and performance. Building a chat application used to be a massive chunk of work, but with the power of react-native and St…

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In this tutorial, we’ll build a functional clone of iMessage using Stream Chat iOS SDK. Building a messaging app used to be difficult; but in this tutorial, you’ll get a chat experience up and running in roughly 20 minutes! If you get lost during this tutorial, you can check: The…

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Apache Cordova is an application development framework that allows you to develop cross-platform apps using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Its main advantage over traditional app development workflows is that it allows for the use of a single codebase for And…