A highly advance featured chat app in android using Firestore

In this era of the social media craze and internet age, where smartphones have become a core part in peoples' lives. And with millions monthly active users on advanced chat apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram etc, we (consumers) have started taking these awesome features as for granted. This have become a trouble and headache for indie developers (especially those who provide development services or freelancing) to create such feature-rich platforms in constrained time.

So, ChatHub is an open-source feature-rich chat platform (initially for Android) using Firebase's Cloud Firestore database as backend. Android Developers can easily use this platform in their apps and integrate highly advanced feature-rich chat system within a short time.

Cloud Firestore is an extended feature of Google Firebase and a real-time document-collection based database service that is an excellent choice if you don’t want to host your own server. With Firestore, you can have our demo chat app setup and running in under 30 minutes. Firestore has a powerful dashboard that gives you access to your data and a REST API if you need to access data from your server. Some of the advantages of Cloud Firestore include:

• Self-Hosted
• Scalable
• Flexible Authentication
• Realtime & Fast
• Pay as you go including Free Tier
• Cross platform SDKs

• Authentication (Anonymous, Email, Facebook, Twitter, Google+)
• Phone Number Authentication
• Text Messages
• Image Messages
• GIF Messages
• Multiple Image Messages
• Location Messages
• Audio Messages
• Video Messages
• Contact Messages
• Link/URL Preview Messages
• Document (PDF/DOC) Messages
• Reply Messages
• Markdown Messages Support for Bold, Italic, and Underline
• Emojis Support
• Message Reactions
• Online/Last Active Status
• Message Read/Receipt Ticks
• Unread Messages Count
• Group Chats
• Private & Public Chats
• Push Notifications
• Chat Background Support
• Typing Indicator
• User Mentions
• Date Dividing Sections
• Chat / Group Media, Documents, and Links
• Restore/Export from and to CSV File
• Chat Heads
• Image Filters
• Image Annotations
• Block/Unblock Users
• Go to Unread Messages like in Messenger
• Reply by swiping the message on left/right

ChatHub is free and open source. If you like the project help us spread the word by:

• Giving us a Github star ⭐
• Upvoting our page on Product Hunt (Note: Product Hunt page coming soon)

This project needs you! If you would like to support this project's further development, the creator of this project or the continuous maintenance of this project, feel free to donate. Your donation is highly appreciated (and I love food, coffee and beer). Thank you!

PayPal

• Donate $5: Thank's for creating this project, here's a tea (or some juice) for you!
• Donate $10: Wow, I am stunned. Let me take you to the movies!
• Donate $15: I really appreciate your work, let's grab some lunch!
• Donate $25: That's some awesome stuff you did right there, dinner is on me!
• Donate $50: I really really want to support this project, great job!
• Donate $100: You are the man! This project saved me hours (if not days) of struggle and hard work, simply awesome!
• Donate $2799: Go buddy, buy Macbook Pro for yourself!

Of course, you can also choose what you want to donate, all donations are awesome!

Wajahat Karim

• Website (http://wajahatkarim.com)
• Twitter (http://twitter.com/wajahatkarim)
• Medium (http://www.medium.com/@wajahatkarim3)
• LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/wajahatkarim)

We're very excited about the project and we're looking for other people to get involved. Over time we would like to make the best messaging framework for mobile. Whether you have

• Ideas
• Translations
• Design changes
• Code cleaning
• Bug fixing
• Real heavy code changes
• Documentation writing

Help is always welcome. The more is done the better it gets!

If you're interested please review the Contributing Document for details of our development flow then email us at [email protected]

Copyright 2018 Wajahat Karim

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