Tutorials: Feeds (2)

Twitter is a social media application that allows users to create tweets (that supports text, media, polls, etc.), react to tweets, retweet tweets, add comments, get notifications of engagements, and follow other users, to name a few. Twitter works with the idea of activity feeds for showing timeline tweets and notifications. Using Stream Feeds and

In this article, the first part of the Build a Twitter Clone series, you will be creating a Twitter clone, which connects and authenticates a selected user with your Stream app. For this tutorial, you will make the layout and add support for creating tweets in the clone using Stream activity feeds. Let us get

We will, very creatively, call our clone Stream-agram. You'll also learn a lot of Flutter concepts to improve animations, gestures, transitions, and state management. The video linked above walks you through this entire blog post, step by step, with additional code instructions. If you get stuck, or if you prefer to learn through video, then

The Problem Recently, as a result of Stream's work on the stream_feed_flutter sample application, it became problematic to not have some kind of "mock" authentication system in place to better test the application. After all, what good is a social feed if there's only one person in it? The stream_feed Dart package (upon which stream_feed_flutter

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 and want users to be able to search blog posts by category.

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, downloads, and

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 sort of complex interaction. All source code for

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, combined with Swift, make it straightforward to

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 application can communicate directly with Stream's Chat API. The

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 part 2, we only

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 complex interaction, with far less overhead than creating

An activity feed is a list of recent actions happening in realtime. In this article, we'll build a simple feed app powered by GitHub WebHooks and Stream Feeds in JavaScript. The app will track the activities of your GitHub organization or personal repositories. So, we'll see what is happening right there from our app. For

In this post, we'll be creating a simple social network, 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. Stream's Activity Feed API combined with Google's Flutter makes it straightforward to build this sort of complex interaction. All source

Stream enables you to listen to fee changes in near real-time using SQS, webhooks or websockets. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to use AWS SQS & Lambda to respond to feed updates. While websockets are the preferred method to listen to changes, SQS notifications have a special spot in the feed infrastructure. Stream

In this tutorial, we will make a Twitter clone using Django and Stream, a hosted API for newsfeed development. By the end, you'll see how easy is to power your newsfeeds with Stream. For brevity, we leave out some basic Django-specific code and recommend referring to the Github project for the complete runnable source code.

In today's digital age, staying updated with the latest news, articles, and podcasts can feel like a daunting task. With an abundance of information scattered across various platforms, managing and consuming content efficiently has become more important than ever. Enter Winds - an innovative open-source application powered by Stream that redefines how we engage with

Getting started and integrating with a technical solution, like the Stream activity feed API, can be exciting. Sometimes you just want to rip open the proverbial box and get started. When implementing a new API I rarely want to read pages and pages of (sometimes boring) documentation - so here's your TL;DR version of the

Here at Stream, we're helping thousands of companies build and scale their activity feed, chat, and video technology. In this guide, we share best practices to make designing an activity or notification feed with world-class UX easier for you. Remember this: feeds are fun! They're really one of the best UI patterns for sharing and

Introduction As part of our "best practices" series, we wanted to describe our best practices for setting up activity feeds for a simple photo sharing application. These feeds allow users to upload photos, follow other users, like photos, and see notification and aggregated feeds. Of course, how you use Stream depends greatly on the kind

Our team has been hard at work to make aggregated feeds easier to use. This blog post will dive into more detail and help you get your aggregated feeds up and running. If you're looking for something more interactive, also check out this 5 minute interactive tutorial. When to Use Aggregated Feeds You should use

Getting the user experience right for a newsfeed is quite the challenge. Many apps end up showing completely irrelevant content to their users. Companies like Instagram, Quora, Etsy, Linkedin and Facebook have shown us a few tricks about providing an engaging newsfeed experience. At Stream, we've helped thousands of companies with their feeds. Every app