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OpenFirebaseChat

The ultimate fully featured, customizable, UI-independent, high performant, easy to integrate library with a free Firebase backend-as-a-service

What? Another Firebase Chat? Why?

I already reached out to most of the authors of Firebase Chat libraries for iOS on GitHub in a hope to join forces and create the ultimate library together.

This is something we can all benefit from.

Let's discuss!

What project to fork? #1

Features

Functional Features

  • Text messages
  • Image messages
  • Video messages
  • Stickers
  • Custom smileys
  • Emoji support
  • Animated GIF support
  • URL previews
  • Hashtags
  • Mentions
  • Group chat permissions/roles
  • Deeplinks
  • Channel colors
  • Channel title images
  • Private/public channels
  • Typing indicators
  • Unread indicators
  • Delete message
  • Edit message
  • Participants screen
  • Channel names - editable
  • Create a channel name
  • Invitations to group channels
  • Reporting participants/messages
  • Blocking channels/users

Performance Features

  • Real-time updates to everything
  • Offline mode
  • Pagination
  • async image loading
  • video streaming
  • image thumbnails in the chat bubbles
  • upload manager - resume/cancel files upload

UI Library - MessageKit?

Although the goal is to create a UI-independent library, we have to start somewhere. The best candidate seems to be: https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit