Chat

All about chat app development, from high-level considerations to the nuts and bolts of chat features.

Migrating Your Chat Widget from GoInstant to PubNub
ChatAug 3, 2014

Migrating Your Chat Widget from GoInstant to PubNub

Good News! We’ve launched an all new Chat Resource Center. We recommend checking out our new Chat Resource Center, which includes overviews, tutorials, and design patterns for building and deploying mobile and web chat. Take me to the Chat Resource Center → On August 1st, GoInstant announced the...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
How to Send a Self-Destructing Message
ChatJul 30, 2014

How to Send a Self-Destructing Message

This tutorial walks you through how to send a TLS encrypted, self-destructing message in a chatroom that will destruct after a customizable, predetermined amount of time

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
Create Encrypted Chat Messages
ChatJul 29, 2014

Create Encrypted Chat Messages

This blog post walks you through sending encrypted chat messages, and overall shows you how to build a self destructing chatroom app.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
Building a Messaging Layer for a Dating App with PubNub
ChatJul 28, 2014

Building a Messaging Layer for a Dating App with PubNub

Dating app uses PubNub Data Streams to power its real-time messaging layer, as well as its matchmaking game.

Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team
Building a Key Exchange System to Send Encrypted Messages
ChatJul 23, 2014

Building a Key Exchange System to Send Encrypted Messages

How to build a key exchange system using PubNub, enabling users to send encrypted, self destructing chat messages in real time.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
Key Exchange and Self Destructing Messages Overview
ChatJul 22, 2014

Key Exchange and Self Destructing Messages Overview

Part One on building an open source, self destructing chat widget enabling you to send and receive self destructing, encrypted messages.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
Mobile Group Chat with One Line of JavaScript
ChatJun 5, 2014

Mobile Group Chat with One Line of JavaScript

We’ll show you how to build a mobile group chat application in one line of JavaScript. Tutorial and demo…

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
Real-time Chat Apps: Really That Easy
ChatMay 29, 2014

Real-time Chat Apps: Really That Easy

Good News! We’ve launched an all new Chat Resource Center. We recommend checking out our new Chat Resource Center, which includes overviews, tutorials, and design patterns for building and deploying mobile and web chat. Take me to the Chat Resource Center → It’s common for us to say how “easy”...
Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team
Create a Speech to Text Chat Room with Wit and PubNub
ChatMar 21, 2014

Create a Speech to Text Chat Room with Wit and PubNub

A walkthrough on adding speech-to-text functionality to a chatroom using PubNub and Wit.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll