The more you make use of messenger application; you’re baffled with an increasing desire to use them. It captures all your attention like a vicious circle and occupies you in a more engrossing way. But at the same time, it will also give you a reason to believe that your communication (either official or casual) has become much more effective and efficient. And this is just what your team might be looking forward to. Looking to build chat messenger apps like whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram? Don’t leave out on these essential features.
There is a need to empathize the most effective features that will best suit your requirements in a better way. This noesis will give you this understanding in two ways:
Aptly called as next big thing in social media, almost every messenger application provides free voice calling and free mobile texting over Wi-Fi or mobile data plan, which is the primary reason behind their immense popularity.
While the normal text messages come with a 160 character limit, they are often tagged with uncertain delivery, not forgetting the priceyness. Besides this while keeping track of the conversations is difficult, the service providers even put a cap on a number of messages to be sent and received every month. And if the customers’ exceed this limit, they are undoubtedly charged high.
Messaging apps were designed to be solutions for this problem. Whatsapp, Wechat, Facebook Messenger and likewise have truly revolutionized the conversation backdrop. Besides speeding up the message transfer, user-friendly UI, hassle free delivery, options like group chat, instant messaging, voice and video calls and innumerable emoticons have added expressions to the messages, thus making them highly interactive.
Login into the app
Entering into the application with appropriate login credentials is of foremost importance. The user is required to enter their name and verify their mobile number to access all the resources and features of the app. Alternatively, the user can also be asked to enter their emails for verification.
Chatbots
Chatbots (short for chat robots) are small software programs that are designed to work on chat platforms and converse with humans. These are based on AI-based algorithms and are useful in providing quick solutions 24/7 to users. They are intelligent agents who even perform automated tasks, better than real customer support in some cases. Chatbots have become an essential part of mobile app platforms and come along with a varying level of utility. Chat Apps like Telegram have been adding new features on the app and allows creating smarter and more integrated bots.
Usage of chatbots has increased significantly. With an unprecedented hype lately, here are some most popular uses of chatbots:
Broadcasting Message
This feature allows sending a message to multiple users at the same time. This message appears as normal non-group message to all recipients. Widely used by news agencies this feature can be used to promote small information in a big way.
End-to-End Encryption
Whatsapp has adopted this feature very well. It says, “Messages to this chat and calls are now secured with end-to-end encryption, which means WhatsApp and third parties can’t read or listen to them”. Therefore only the sender and recipient are able to understand the conversation and no other third parties can interpret the conversation that might include messages, photos, videos, voice messages, documents, status updates, and calls etc., not even WhatsApp. It is noteworthy that an end to end encryption is always activated and there is no way to turn it off.
Synchronization with Cloud
Chat apps like Whatsapp offer backing up images, documents, audio, and video to Google Drive.
Data stored in the cloud can be accessed anytime and anywhere if internet connection is available.
Chat messenger apps like WhatsApp allow backing up chat history using Google Drive or a local backup. These local backups will be automatically created every day at 2:00 AM and get saved as a file in your phone. But do the end to end encryption and actually secure the application? As the popularity of the app increases the mobile app development firms have to be extra cautious about the privacy and security. This ensures:
Push Notifications
Adding push notifications is always advantageous to grab the attention of users of the app. Besides allowing the users to check the messages in the notification area without opening the chat, it even saves time.
Geo Location
This is important for those who are always eager to share their current location on social media, helpful in finding a school, hospital, bank, park, theater or restaurant nearby. E-commerce, travel, online food, gaming or calling a taxi/cab, no mobile experience is complete without the inclusion of geo-location feature. These are also helpful in networking, retail, and real-estate searches. For chat applications like WhatsApp or Chat applications like Telegram, this feature is helpful in mobile marketing and advertising.
This list illustrates some of the features that a messenger app must have:
Top mobile app development firms have created some of the amazing chat messenger applications. Here are the popular ones:
Also read: How Much Does It Cost to Develop an App Like Snapchat?
Being aggressive and throwing chances on, finally, it’s coming together. Chat Apps like Telegram does not have as much visibility as Chat Apps like WhatsApp, yet the features it offers to Bot builders are impressive. Besides the features discussed above two of the most important things that have to be kept in mind while designing the messenger applications is the cost of the mobile app and additional functionalities that must be included into it to make it unique. Already inquisitive? Call us to know more or leave a query, we will get back to you at earliest.
Neeti Kotia is a technology journalist who seeks to analyze the advancements and developments in technology that affect our everyday lives. Her articles primarily focus upon the business, social, cultural, and entertainment side of the technology sector.
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