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Feature Update for Messaging App to Suit Your Requirements

Manish Jain

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We are all sitting down to a hot bowl of consequences (Credits: COVID-19). Things have been strange lately. Communicating on our phone has gone far beyond simple short messages and voice calls (phone calls, data calls). We have social messengers, professional messengers that are so power-packed and challenging, to settle on which services are worth our time.

Different cultural contexts have led to varying applicability of social media. The apps didn’t alter how people were behaving but rather people changed and repurposed the way the platforms worked for them. If that seemed mundane and normal in one context, it was almost impossible to fathom when trans-placed somewhere else.

Citing an example of an ethnographer Elisabetta Costa here, who once talked to women in southeast Turkey about how they used Facebook. Her participants were amazed to discover that people in some countries commonly had only one Facebook account and that it would contain their real details. “Don’t they use pseudonyms or fake profiles?” said one respondent. “I can’t believe it. How could it be possible?”

Many researchers are making similar discoveries, hitting their ground running. Technology is not driving people apart. There is mounting evidence to counter the idea that social media has been contributing to the problem of social ties in the weakening of human relations. Rather the technology has rearranged how social ties are maintained, and how the culture influences the way we use the technology. The medium may change but the end product is not drastically different.

The Popularity: How to make Messaging Apps?

Although people often consume themselves in mind-less browsing of social media profiles. This incessant focus on apps (as the main force pushing us to new frontiers in the communication) helps swipe aside the differences amongst common friends, thus adding a new experience to surrounding culture co-existing with the technology.

The past few days have gone by in an absolute blur. Few of us, most of us, all of us have been waiting for that nudge from the universe to just try picking up the phone, and start texting, video calling and zoom! Mobile messaging apps offer a superior alternative to email and text messaging with their extraordinary built-in networking features, enhanced security, free video-calling over Wi-Fi or Data Plans.

The Need: How to make Chat Apps?

New Messenger 2020 apps are fast, simple, and free and can help users manage all your conversation (voice, chat, and video) without much botheration. Messaging apps are preferred over traditional text messaging apps (pre-installed in phones) because:

The Toppers: Best Android/iOS Messaging Apps in 2020

Apart from all-time famous social media apps like Facebook Messenger, Apple’s FaceTime and Skype here is a list of best messaging apps for desktop and mobile devices.

The Essentials: for the Best Chat App

Features:

(P.S: Every messaging app has its features)

Technology Stack for a Chat App (WeChat, WhatsApp, Viber)

Whatsapp WeChat Viber
Language Erlang, PHP Erlang Native
Database Mnesia EnMicroMsg

DB and SQLCipher

 Mongo DB
Protocol XMPP HTTPS SIP

(Session Initiation Protocol)
Server Ejabbered, YAWS, Lighttpd Ejabberd, IceWarp, iChat, Openfire, Prosody AWS

(Amazon web Services),

Nginx

(As a load balancer & webserver)
Operating System FreeBSD

Additionally, RESTful API, databases, storage servers, messaging protocols like XMPP, notification services are an essential part of the technology stack of the real-time chat application.

Well planned security, robust back-end, attractive user interface, Push notifications, Integration of geo-location, Cloud synchronization and the target audience for iOS or Android platforms (native or cross-platform app) – are all essential features that have to be present to make alternatives to Viber for smartphones work.

Cost of Apps for Free Text Messaging

Ratiocination: Considering Features, Cost Factors and Technology Stack to Create iOS/Android Messaging App

Availability of the servers to develop a multi-grade chat app, noting on real-time communication servers, instant data exchange between the apps and servers – figuring out how to make a messaging app can be quite complicated with a wide range of protocols available for every messaging landscape such as MQTT, WebSockets – BOSH, XMPP, Long polling & COMET. Each chat application architecture is created differently, manifesting various functionalities, it becomes equally important to strike a chord between the available frameworks and those that are required to be learnt. Pretty much complicated here with all-inclusive React, Xamarin, Python, Objective-C, Java, .Net, erlang, Cocoa with a possibility of extending the chat application across platforms (Android, iOS and web). To create a chat messenger application like Whatsapp, we need to choose the framework with high library standards and that is supported by different channels. Adding to it, it is essential to put in the required security with layers of end-to-end encryption, AES, HIPAA, HMAC to ensure the messages carried between servers and chat apps are completely shielded. While selecting the tech stack to ensure security it is important for the functionality to adapt to the application.

While developers create a messaging app, they need to source the real-time messaging SDKs and chat APIs along with figuring out the Self-hosted (On-premises) vs. Hosted Chat Application Possibility viz-a-viz everything that is required to customize the chat application and Hosted service is the SaaS-based application. Learn more.

Disclaimer: In case we host the chat service for clients, we don’t access or have complete control over the chat source code, configuration of the features and customizations. Self-hosted service offers end-to-end accessibility and control to customize the chat functionalities and features that adapt to our business needs.