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Stream’s Android Chat SDK supports sending custom attachments with messages. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to send location data as a custom attachment. Note: This tutorial assumes you already know the basics of the Stream API. To get started, check out the Android In-App Me…

In today’s world, chat or instant messaging apps have completely superseded traditional text messages. We all use chat app to communicate with the people around us due to the capability of the chat application to provide features such as message read receipts, user presence, reac…

Music has always been an oasis for me while coding and writing. I love chatting for hours on end with my friends, exploring our peculiar music taste. What if we had an app where we could listen to music and discuss with a like-minded community? This tutorial will create a music c…

Almost every application needs an authentication strategy. The most common being the classic username and password combo. However, there’s a new approach some apps are taking to avoid handling or storing user passwords: passwordless authentication. It generally involves sending a…

Stream’s Chat SDK for Android provides a way for you to add reactions in your application in a matter of minutes. The SDK has a free trial, and it’s free to use for small companies and hobby projects with a Maker Account. In this tutorial, you’re going to learn how to do the foll…

Messages in Stream Chat can contain a number of attachments. The UI Components library for Android renders these by default depending on their type. Images are rendered in a gallery layout, files are shown in a list, and links show rich previews of the content they’re leading to.…

Previously, in Get up and Running With Stream Chat, we looked at how to register your organization for Stream Chat, and get an API key and secret for your app. Now it’s time to create a new Android project, add the Stream Chat Android SDK to it, and create your first users and ch…

Previously, in Get up and Running With Stream Chat, we looked at how to register your organization, and get an API key and secret for your Stream Chat app. Now it’s time to create your first users and channels in this environment. One of the ways of doing that is by using our fri…

Registering an account First, go to the trial registration page, and fill out the required details. (Note that your organization name can not have spaces in it.) The chat trial lets you play around with Stream Chat APIs for 30 days, for free. If you’re a small business or you’re …

Intro and context In our previous article about Jetpack Compose, we shared our initial impressions and recommended some learning resources. This time, we’ll take Compose out for a spin by building a basic chat UI implementation with it! Of course, you might be wondering why we’re…

Authorization is one of the essential parts of any iOS application. Once a user is logged in, it’s your authorization scheme that will make sure users can’t interact with your app in ways they’re not allowed to. Without a robust authorization scheme, hackers could easily access s…

In this tutorial, we’ll build a functional clone of iMessage using Stream Chat Flutter SDK. Building a chat in your app at scale is not an easy task; but in this tutorial, you’ll get a chat experience up and running in roughly 20 minutes! You can follow this tutorial without a de…

Technology once reserved for broadcast journalism, televised concerts, and important sporting events is now available to all with a WiFi connection and a smartphone. Live streaming, defined as the real-time transmission of events over the internet, grew exponentially in 2020. Acc…

Message Markup Language (MML) enables you to build an interactive messaging experience. MML supports embedding elements as simple as a button to your message or as complex as date pickers and custom forms within your chat experience. MML also supports images, icons, and tables ou…

Livestreams are everywhere these days, from popular gaming sites such as Twitch to more casual everyday apps like Instagram. Apps use live streaming and live video to help connect users and add another level of interactivity to their platform. If you think about modern live strea…

When you’re modeling and building an API, storing ID references to other documents to create relationships between types of data within your domain is paramount to efficient querying, scalability, and even your own sanity. Imagine you’re building the backend for a blog platform a…

Since Swift 5 and Xcode 11 were released, SPM became a viable dependency manager for many iOS projects. It’s also been heavily improved upon in Xcode 12 with the support of binary frameworks and resource files such as storyboards, nibs, localization folders, asset catalogs, and c…

As of Swift 5 and Xcode 11, Swift Package Manager supports the iOS, macOS, and tvOS build system. This support has also been greatly improved in Xcode 12 with the addition of non-source files, including asset catalogs, storyboards and nibs, core data models, and localization fold…

In Part 2 of this tutorial, we covered how to build Slack-like navigation, channel list screen, channel screen, reaction picker, and action sheet. In this tutorial, Part 3, we will build various search screens and thread screen. Resources 👇 Below are a few helpful links if you g…

React Native has come a long way since its first release in 2015. In fact, it has enough components, APIs, and supporting libraries in its present state that you can re-create every app that’s out there on the Google Play Store or Apple App Store in no time! In this series, we wi…

SwiftUI becomes more popular as it gets more capable with each iOS release. However, it may take some time until it’s a better option than UIKit to build complex user experiences such as chat and video calls. That doesn’t mean you need to stick with UIKit until all the SDKs you u…

In most cases, when building a chat app, it’s essential to provide adequate privacy and security to your users. This can be done using cryptographic methods such as end-to-end encryption. End-to-end encryption is becoming a mainstream expectation, as it’s featured in the biggest …

In this guide, we’ll create the a basic Psychotherapy App for iOS with Stream Chat, for its fully featured chat components, and Dolby.io, for its excellent audio and video capabilities. Both offerings are HIPAA compliant. When you finish following the steps, you’ll get an app lik…

When transmitting or storing user data, especially private conversations, it’s essential to consider employing cryptographic techniques to ensure privacy. By reading this tutorial, you’ll learn how to end-to-end encrypt data in web applications using nothing but JavaScript and th…

Most of the time, when building a chat application, it’s essential to have some level of control over what your users can share and say to each other. In this tutorial, we’ll use Swift Lambda and Stream’s powerful chat API to build a content moderation system that can prevent use…

This tutorial demonstrates how to set up notifications for these events using a Stream Feed in conjunction with AWS S3. We will walk through a basic set up that shows how to create a timeline (flat feed) to display a list of events tied to an AWS S3 bucket – think user uploads, d…

In this tutorial, we’ll build a chat app with a dashboard that allows an admin user to switch between one-on-one customer chat channels in the same window. As a busy customer support representative, you don’t want to be stuck with a chat app that opens each chat in a new window, …

In this tutorial, we’ll build a chat app that sends a copy of a chat transcript in an email using SendGrid. Imagine being able to automatically inform your sales team when one of their clients has chatted with your support team. This app sends a transcript of that chat directly t…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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, …

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 API for a seamless communication experience. Note: th…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…