Wants to create your own chat app? Here’s how…
Hello there, I am Vikas Kumar student of 2nd-year Information technology B.tech from CBP Government Engineering college
To begin creating your chat application you should be aware of how to use a version control system. If you don't know how to use it read my previous article mentioned below.
In order to create a chat application, you should be aware of any programming language and an Integrated Development Environment for app development and should have a database server to store/fetch all the inputs sent by users when required. There are many companies that offer their servers like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Access, SQL Server, FileMaker, Oracle, RDBMS, dBASE, Clipper, FoxPro and Parse. I used Parse Server i.e., an open-source Backend-as-a-Service(BaaS) framework initially developed by Facebook for my own application. To get to know more about pasrse go https://parseplatform.org That's it you are good to code.
In my application, I have used Parse Server as the database server, Android Studio as the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and JAVA to program.
Here are some of the sample algorithm you would need
1: To create Class, tuples and feed the data on the server
Here in this program, our Class is Score which is more like a table_name; username, score are the tuples on the table name Score which have values rob, 86 respectively.
2: To get data from the server to your local system
Here SFQaU4UXfv is the object id made automatically by the server (each and every attribute which is uploaded to the server have their own object id) which is used to get the data stored at this id.
3: To check whether any user is logged in or not, if logged in then get the username
getCurrentUser is a well-defined function of parse that gets the credentials of the current user who is signed in.
4: To verify username and password given by user from the server
logInBackground function compares the data with the data provided by the user.
5: To make new user signup with a unique username
There are a lot more modules to create a chatting app if want to learn all, go to my project link mentioned below.
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