Tutorial: How to Build an iOS Messaging App in 15 Minutes
Messaging is a big trend these days, applications ranging from dating apps,on-demand services, consumer apps, e-commerce apps, to mobile games. But building a messaging app from scratch is pretty tough and time consuming. That’s why we’ve prepared this quick tutorial for building your own iOS messaging app.
SendBird is the chat API and backend for apps. In the guide, we will build a simple iOS Messaging App using SendBird on a sample project. The project comes with a basic UI/UX for a messaging app so that you can easily experience the development process for implementing a messaging feature leveraging SendBird‘s chat API and backend.
Getting the Sample Project
You can kick-start this sample project simply by downloading the sample project here. All the parts required for the tutorial is included in this project, including the basic UI resources.
Core Messaging Features
The project implements four features for a simple open chat rooms and 1-on-1 & group messaging.
- Open chat: Open chat is a public chat. This is a channel which can be participated by anyone can join without an admission. The channel can be created on SendBird dashboard or via the server API.
- 1-on-1 messaging: 1-on-1 messaging is a private channel between two users. Think whatsapp.
- Group messaging: Group messaging is a private channel shared among multiple users. Any user who wants to join the group messaging channel must be invited by other users who have already joined the channel.
- Profile settings: Profile settings have a profile image and a nickname which are used during chat.
The Guide to Building Your iOS Messaging App
The comprehensive guide to build an iOS messaging app is available on our guide hosted by Gitbook.
Follow the steps described on the guide and you’ll be on your way to creating the next big success using real-time messaging!
We are eager to see what exciting projects you are working on! Please send us your feedbacks to support@sendbird.com
Have fun developing your iOS messaging app!
