4 posts tagged with "React Native"

In this tutorial series, I'll be showing you how to build a functional and secure chat app using the latest React Native libraries, including Gifted Chat and the Expo framework, powered by the ChatKitty platform.

So far you learned how to use the Gifted Chat React Native library with ChatKitty's JavaScript SDK to build a full-featured chat screen with real-time messaging functionality into your app, adding screens for users to create public channels, discover new channels, and view their channels. In the third article of this series, you enhanced that chat experience by implementing in-app and push notifications to notify your users when chat events occur.

In this tutorial, you'll be building on the group chat experience you created adding direct messaging to allow users to communicate privately. You'll also be adding a few enhancements to the chat experience including typing indicators, and chat room presence notifications.

After reading this article, you will be able to:

1. Create direct channels for users to chat privately

2. Integrate Gifted Chat's in-built typing indicator and implement a custom more detailed indicator

3. Notify chat users when a user enters or leaves the chat from a chat screen

4. Allow users to leave chat channels they are no longer interested in

If you followed along the previous articles, you should already have the ChatKitty JavaScript SDK NPM package added to your Expo React Native project.

In this tutorial series, I'll be showing you how to build a functional and secure chat app using the latest React Native libraries, including Gifted Chat and the Expo framework powered by the ChatKitty platform.

In the second article of this series, you learned how to use the Gifted Chat React Native library with ChatKitty's JavaScript SDK to build a full featured chat screen with real-time messaging functionality into your app. You also added screens for users to create public channels, discover new channels, and view their channels.

In this tutorial, you'll be using Expo push notifications and ChatKitty Chat Functions to set up local notifications and push notifications to inform users when new messages are received or relevant actions happen inside a channel and across your app.

You can checkout our Expo React Native sample code any time on GitHub.

After reading this article, you will be able to:

1. Implement local notifications for users to see what's happening from another screen

2. Use ChatKitty user properties to store arbitrary data related to your users like expo push tokens

3. Use Expo push notifications and ChatKitty Chat Functions to implement push notifications

If you followed along the last article, you should already have the ChatKitty JavaScript SDK NPM package added to your Expo React Native project.

In this tutorial series , I'll be showing you how to build a functional and secure chat app using the latest React Native libraries, including Gifted Chat and the Expo framework powered by the ChatKitty platform.

In the first article of this series, you learned how to use Firebase along with ChatKitty Chat Functions to implement a secure yet simple user login flow by proxying Firebase Authentication through ChatKitty. Along with that, you built a couple of screens with the react-native-paper UI library to allow users to register for your chat app and login into the app.

In this tutorial, you'll be using the Gifted Chat React Native library to create a full-featured chat screen with its out of the box features. You'll also use ChatKitty's JavaScript Chat SDK to add real-time messaging to your chat app.

After reading this article, you will be able to:

1. Create public channels for users to join

2. View all channels a user can join and discover channels created by other users

3. Integrate the react-native-gifted-chat library to implement a group chat screen

You can check out our Expo React Native sample code any time on GitHub.

If you followed along the last article, you should already have the ChatKitty JavaScript SDK NPM package added to your Expo React Native project.

In this tutorial series, I'll be showing you how to build a functional and secure chat app using the latest React Native libraries, the Expo framework, and Firebase, powered by the ChatKitty platform. Part 1 covers using Firebase Authentication and ChatKitty Chat Functions to securely implement user registration and login.

This is the first article of this series. After reading this article, you will be able to:

1. Create an Expo React Native application

2. Create a Firebase project for user authentication

3. Create a ChatKitty project and connect to ChatKitty to provide real-time chat functionality

4. Use Firebase Authentication and ChatKitty Chat Functions to securely implement user login