We’ve mentioned a number of nice chat example apps in the past few months most recently an example from Related Code showing how to create a chat app using Firebase for the backend and an extensive project providing source code for a chat app along with an open source server called Spika.
Here’s another example chat app from RelatedCode this time using the Parse service for the backend.
Here are a list of features in the example taken from the readme:
– Live chat between multiple devices
– Multiple chatrooms
– Dynamically add new chatrooms
– Register/Login views
– Facebook login
– Basic Profile view is also included
– Change profile picture possibility
– No backend programming needed
– Automatic online/offline detection and handle
– Copy and paste messages
– Dynamically resizes input text while typing
– Native and easy to customize user interface
– Send button is enabled/disabled automatically
– Arbitrary message sizes
– Data detectors (recognizes phone numbers, links and dates)
– Timestamps possibilities
– Hide keyboard with swipe down
– Smooth animations
– Send/Receive sound effects
You can find ParseChat on Github here.
A great chat app example.
- Tutorial: Building A Chat Application Easily Using Parse.Com For The Backend
- Tutorial: How To Easily Build A Location Based Social Messaging App With Parse
- Tutorial: How To Build An iOS Video Chat App With OpenTok And Parse
- Example: A Real Time Chat App Complete Featuring Login By Facebook/Twitter
- Tutorial: Create An Instagram Style App With Parse User Authorization And Push Notifications
Original article: Example: Full Featured Chat App With A Great Interface Using Parse For The Backend
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