Hello / Is there a good and clear tutorial? Or, at least, Can anyone help me by telling me where should I start by creating a chat messenger? What is better now for the first step to start? Can you suggest to me where I can start with, which is better now to find out?

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  • Take FireBase - there is a ready-made chat in the description - YuriySPb ♦
  • and swift to do with it? - Max Mikheyenko 6:36 pm

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Tutorial ... it's hard. But I can give directions on how to make your chat very quickly. I think in a week or two there will be a fully working prototype. And then just lay on it and do the design.

I recommend looking at xmpp for this (another name is jabber). This solves all questions at once:

  • server. There are a lot of free servers for different color and taste. Starting with openfire (written in java) or ejabberd (here is Erlang, but it does not matter).

  • customer. There are many client libraries and even ready-made clients .

  • extensibility. The protocol itself allows you to do this.

  • video / audio is already out of the box in the standard, but you will need to search for libraries.

and much more.