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This is a code sample for QuickBlox platform. It is a great way for developers using QuickBlox platform to learn how to integrate private and group chat, add text and image attachments sending into your application.

Features:

  • Login/logout
  • Send and receive message/attachment
  • Create and leave a 1-to-1 and group chat
  • Create a public chat
  • Display users who have received/read the message
  • Mark messages as read/delivered
  • Send typing indicators
  • List and delete chats
  • Display chat history
  • Display a list with chat participants
  • Receive push notifications
  • Subscribe/unsubscribe device to push notifications

Get application credentials

QuickBlox application includes everything that brings messaging right into your application - chat, video calling, users, push notifications, etc. To create a QuickBlox application, follow the steps below:

  1. Register a new account following this link. Type in your email and password to sign in. You can also sign in with your Google or Github accounts.
  2. Create the app clicking New app button.
  3. Configure the app. Type in the information about your organization into corresponding fields and click Add button.
  4. Go to Dashboard => YOUR_APP => Overview section and copy your Application ID, Authorization Key, Authorization Secret, and Account Key.

Run Chat sample

  1. Setup the React Native environment.
  2. Clone repository with the sample.
  3. Open a terminal and enter the commands below in your project path.
npm install
  1. Extra steps for iOS: in file ios/Podfile change platform to 12
platform :ios, '12.0'

then in terminal run

cd ios
pod install
  1. Get appId, authKey, authSecret, accountKey from your app and put these values in src/QBConfig.js file .
export default {
  appId: xxxxxxx,
  authKey: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
  authSecret: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxx',
  accountKey: 'xxxxxxxxxxxx',
  apiEndpoint: '',
  chatEndpoint: '',
}
  1. Run the code sample.
    npm run android OR npm run ios

NOTE: in order to receive push notifications you should make changes as described in documentation