Hey all, 2 developer webinars ago, David Book went over creating if I recall, some form of messaging app to talk about team scores. with the possibilities of doing messaging in buzztouch, is it also possible to do a tinder or vine type app using buzztouch? Any ideas? thanks Ed

I wanted to have a look at that webinar but it seems it is not published, at least it is not in the option Webinars, Events for the registered users. It seems message apps are all the rage now and I'd like to give it a try. I can write the Android part and the server part, and I need someone to work with iOS for this (I don't have Apple hardware). Any ideas how such an app should look like? Or what should a buzztouch plugin for messaging look like? (Mind you, I haven't seen the webinar so feel free to repeat what you have seen there.) Suggestions, requests, and ideas please!

I'd be interested in this as well. There was a series of chat apps for iOS by developer "Jim Young" some time ago. Several of them have disappeared (not sure if by choice or by apple), but he still has a couple of them listed. I think his biggest on was called "Whats Good". Instead of requiring someones screen name to send a message, like KIK, it allowed each user to have a profile with picture and details, and then it was a tabbed app where different tabs sorted the list of users by "most recently online", "distance from me", etc. It was pretty cool because you could see people pics and read their profiles before deciding to message them. Another tab "My Chats" popped up a table view with all of the people you have been messaging, and tapping one of those rows opened up the actual chat thread. From there you could ignore them, add that person to favorites, and I think he had an option where you could buy them a drink or something. Pretty cool little app. I think all of his other chat apps were clones of this structure, and he simply reskinned them to make them themed to a specific niche. I'd love to create a clone of this type of app structure, just not sure where to start.

Is there something similar for Android?

I think the webinar was recorded and those in attendance were going to be able to get the file? no followup anywhere in the forums, it was a good walk through, a lot in an hour. got our hopes up on the possibility, if anything ideas for a new plugin.

I have just sent a message to Susan, hopefully she will know about the existence of the recording or not.

I know that Udemy has a video course on making a chat app. https://www.udemy.com/building-a-chat-app-for-ios/ I was also reading where iOS 7 added some features that made it easier to build this sort of app. Though having iOS 7 as the min sdk might be a problem for buzztouch users. http://www.appcoda.com/intro-multipeer-connectivity-framework-ios-programming/

I communicated with Michael Shultz via his Twitter account on how his Hemaglobe app was powered with the built-in private messaging service. He says Parse.com is the backend, while Jesse Squires MessagesTableViewController is the front end. Parse http://Parse.com Jesse Squires MessagesTableViewController https://github.com/jessesquires/MessagesTableViewController Hemaglobe app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hemoglobe/id622855569?mt=8 There are four other apps that have been integrated with Jesse's messages control, click on the tab for "Apps using this Control" https://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/jsmessagesviewcontroller -- Niraj

Cool stuff, but can this be integrated into what david showed us. you were at that webinar right?

Memory jogger -- David Book had said that each message bubble can be a Child Item for the Buzztouch JSON dialect.

So can Hemaglobe be recreated in buzztouch

All this time folks have been enraptured with the sexyness of the Chat screens that David had shown. Immediately, I had thought, "this can be a private chat just within the app -- user engagement!" As David had discussed during the Webinar, the server part also needs to be created. Here is one way to make the server-side sing and scream. Read the article on Ars Technica. "How to set up your own private instant messaging server" by Lee Hutchinson http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/how-to-set-up-your-own-private-instant-messaging-server/ Pay attention to the comments, there are quite a few diamonds in there! -- Niraj