OpenFirebaseChat

The ultimate fully featured, customizable, UI-independent, high performant, easy to integrate library with a free Firebase backend-as-a-service

What? Another Firebase Chat? Why?

I already reached out to most of the authors of Firebase Chat libraries for iOS on GitHub in a hope to join forces and create the ultimate library together.

This is something we can all benefit from.

Let's discuss!

What project to fork? https://github.com/kutakmir/OpenFirebaseChat/issues/1

Features

Functional Features

• [ ] Text messages
• [ ] Image messages
• [ ] Video messages
• [ ] Stickers
• [ ] Custom smileys
• [ ] Emoji support
• [ ] Animated GIF support
• [ ] URL previews
• [ ] Hashtags
• [ ] Mentions
• [ ] Group chat permissions/roles
• [ ] Deeplinks
• [ ] Channel colors
• [ ] Channel title images
• [ ] Private/public channels
• [ ] Typing indicators
• [ ] Unread indicators
• [ ] Delete message
• [ ] Edit message
• [ ] Participants screen
• [ ] Channel names - editable
• [ ] Create a channel name
• [ ] Invitations to group channels
• [ ] Reporting participants/messages
• [ ] Blocking channels/users

Performance Features

• [ ] Real-time updates to everything
• [ ] Offline mode
• [ ] Pagination
• [ ] async image loading
• [ ] video streaming
• [ ] image thumbnails in the chat bubbles
• [ ] upload manager - resume/cancel files upload

UI Library - MessageKit?

Although the goal is to create a UI-independent library, we have to start somewhere. The best candidate seems to be: https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit