Tutorials
iOS 26: How To Integrate Video Image Effects & AI Filters Into a SwiftUI App
Why Video Image Effects and AI Filters Matter Popular video communication applications like Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok allow users to augment videos with custom makeup and retouches before posting them to the platforms. Similarly, when users need to stream a live video to their followers, they can improve their camera feeds with face, lip, and
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Build a Chat to Slack Integration for Real-Time Feedback
To build great products, start by listening. Everything matters. Every bug report, feature request, or glowing review. These are the signals that fuel your product roadmap. However, standing between success and failure is the pain of managing and routing that feedback to the right teams. According to a Zendesk report, 59% of support teams are
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How To Build an Activity Feed App in React Native
Popular social media and community-focused apps like Facebook, X, Instagram, Reddit, and TikTok have something in common. They all possess ubiquitous features such as followers, following, interest, popularity, and location-based content delivery. You can integrate these features into web and mobile apps using activity feeds that power timelines, explore tabs, and personalized recommendations. The following
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Build a Real-Time Social Feed With Next.js
This guide helps you build a Next.js social media app like X. The app allows users to get real-time post and activity updates and share, comment, bookmark, create, and manage posts. We will use Stream's Activity Feeds API for scalability and ease of use. Get started! Activate your free Stream account today and start prototyping
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How to Build a Loom Clone using Next.js, Stream, and Firebase
As remote work and distributed teams become more popular, how we communicate and collaborate is evolving rapidly. Tools that support asynchronous communication are essential for team members to share updates, feedback, and walkthroughs without jumping on a call. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to build a video recording and sharing platform using Next.js, Firebase,
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29 min read
Using Stream’s Firebase Extensions as a Server
In this tutorial, we’ll build a fully functioning iOS app that uses Firebase for authentication and Stream for in-app chat, without writing a single line of server code. Thanks to the power of Firebase Extensions, we can automate all the backend plumbing that would typically require custom infrastructure. With the Stream Firebase Extension, user creation
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8 min read
Sendbird Migration Guide
Building in-app chat with Sendbird can be a fast way to launch messaging features, especially with its out-of-the-box components. But as your product grows and user expectations rise, you may start to feel boxed in. Performance starts to bottleneck. Customization hits a ceiling. And scaling gracefully becomes a challenge. That's where Stream comes in. As
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The 8 Best Platforms To Build Voice AI Agents
Voice assistants like Siri and Alexa are great for non-trivial everyday personal assistive tasks. However, they are limited in providing accurate answers to complex questions, real-time information, handling turns, and user interruptions. Get started! Activate your free Stream account today and start prototyping your own voice AI agent! Try asking Siri about the best things
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