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iOS 12 Chat Application like WhatsApp and Viber

Name: iOS 12 Chat Application like WhatsApp and Viber
Rating: 4.5 (437 reviews)

iOS12, swift 4.2, xCode 10, whats app, chat, messenger, push notification, call, social media, ios development

Created byDavid Kababyan

Last updated 2/2022

English

What you'll learn

the course will cover many topic of iOS development.
By the end pf this course you will have your own copy of whatsapp with all the functionalities

Course content

30 sections • 260 lectures • 32h 14m total length

Getting the xCode4:57

Setting up the user interface9:42
Connecting UI with code6:09
Adding cocoapods13:02
pod 'Firebase/Database'
pod 'Firebase/Core'
pod 'Firebase/Auth'
pod 'Firebase/Storage'
pod 'Firebase/Firestore'

pod 'ProgressHUD'
pod 'MBProgressHUD'
pod 'IQAudioRecorderController'

pod 'JSQMessagesViewController', ‘7.3.3’
pod 'IDMPhotoBrowser'

pod 'OneSignal'
#pod 'ImagePicker'
pod 'RNCryptor'
pod 'SinchRTC'
Creating firebase project7:20
Download assets0:14
Adding Assets to project14:01
Login and Register user functions5:43
Login User function7:57
Display a progress notification during login and authenticate with email and password using Firebase authentication. Save the authenticated user locally as the current user.
Register user function part 15:17
Implement the register user function for the iOS 12 chat app, validate password match, manage progress and keyboard, and guide users to complete their profile details after registration.

Finish registering user (creating profile) User interface9:45
Profile view connections8:39
Segue from Welcome view to Profile view7:33
Cancel button function in profile view6:04
Dismiss the profile view, clear all text fields (name, surname, country, city, phone), and dismiss the keyboard when tapping the cancel button to return to the welcome screen.
Done Button functionality8:40
Enable the done button to validate required fields, show registration progress, register the user using firebase authentication, and save a user object to the database and locally with error handling.
Register User10:42
Finish registration function5:45
Finish registration function updates the user dictionary, saves it locally and to Firestore, updates the current user with new values, handles errors, and proceeds to enter the app.
Save first users to firebase9:02
Set authentication-based security rules for Firestore, enabling read and write only for authenticated users, then save the first user and verify ID, avatar initials, name, city, and country.
Registering user6:29
Testing login function2:11
Implementing autologin10:46
Log out user12:08
Creating more users3:17

Users Table View Controller User interface4:48
Custom table view cell for users part 19:26
Learn to implement a custom table view cell for users, create the cell class, set a reuse identifier, wire avatar and full name, and load rounded avatars from Firebase.
Custom table view cell for users part 23:09
Users Table View Controller code part 17:47
Users Table View Controller code part 2 (Search users)5:14
Add the required search functions to the users table view controller and fix protocol conformance. Filter by first name using lowercase comparison, then reload the table to show live results.
Load users function part 110:21
Load users function part 26:32
Load users function part 310:26
Setting Big titles for chats4:12
Search Users part 17:45
Search Users part 24:26
Search Users part 36:27
Search Users part 46:27
Search Users part 5 fix errors2:03

Profile View User Interface10:30
Create a profile view using a table view controller with three static sections, featuring an avatar image, full name and phone number labels, and two action buttons arranged with constraints.
Profile view connections part 18:52
Profile view connections part 214:17
Set up the profile view by wiring user data and avatar image, and use a custom delegate to navigate to the profile when the avatar is tapped.
Profile view connections part 3 update block status5:23
Block user function11:45
Changing file/folder structure2:14
Reorganize the project into three main sections—chat, settings, and secondary views—add test prints for call and chat functions, and plan to start a chat when a user is tapped.

Starting Private chat7:25
Create Recent chats part 110:57
Create recent chat by defining a function that takes members, chat id, user name, and chat type (private or group). Check Firestore for duplicates and update or create per-user records.
Create Recent chats part 213:50
Saving first recent chat to firestore6:43
Recent chats custom cell11:02
Create a recent chats user interface by adding a table view with a custom cell featuring avatar, full name, last message, date, and unread badge using auto layout in storyboard.
Implementing code for custom cell part 16:32
Implementing code for custom cell part 25:35
Implement a custom cell that displays the last message, the chats counter, and a circular avatar, formats the last message date, and reveals the counter only when nonzero.
Implementing code for custom cell part 35:29
Implementing code for custom cell part 43:47

Chats view controller (table view functions)3:58
Chats view controller (Loading recent chats)11:42
Chats view controller (Display first recent chat)7:04
Custom header view for group chat button14:37
Manage listening for new chats and load recent chats when the view appears, and stop listening when the view disappears, via a custom table header with a new group button.
Recent avatar tap function8:41
Handle avatar taps in recent chats to show a private profile or a group chat view by fetching the related user data and presenting the appropriate profile interface.
Searching recent chats10:45
Delete and Mute buttons for recent chats10:04
Implement delete and mute actions for recent chats by adding buttons that appear when the user slides the cells and wiring table view delegate methods to handle dynamic mute state.
Delete function implementation4:11
Restarting existing chat10:55
Implement the restart chat function to refresh or recreate recent items for private and group chats, handling reasons, chatroom ids, and avatars in encrypted conversations.

Chat view controller part implementation6:30
Display chat view controller (and fix errors)9:05
Display the chat view controller, push and present it, then fix a nil unwrap error in the recent chat flow by validating the current user name versus full name.
Fixing UI for iPhone X7:18
Adding microphone button and custom back button11:17
Implementing send button and accessory button functions2:55
Displaying option menu for accessory button8:18
Updating send button UI8:24
Update the send button UI to switch between microphone and send icons based on text input, and adapt iPad popover behavior for App Store compatibility.
Send Message function3:50

Loading chats part 17:26
Loading chats part 210:58
Insert messages function7:32
Inserting initial loaded messages8:15
JSQMessages DataSource functions12:26
Timestamping messages and delivery status part 112:24
Timestamping messages and delivery status part 26:11
Fixing delivery status2:29
Listening for new chats13:09
Loading old chats in the background9:23
Loading earlier messages12:56
Testing load earlier message button1:31
Custom headers for chat view7:11
Setting the custom heders12:07
Setting withUser functionality for our chat2:59
Test run to check custom headers6:30
Camera class and image picker controller11:33
Learn to build a camera class that presents the photo library via an image picker controller to select photos or videos for chat messages.
updating permissions in info.plist3:33
Uploading images to firebase storage part 110:09
Uploading images to firebase storage part 29:03
Send picture message function11:38
Upload the image, create a picture message with a link, sender id, and status, and save the outgoing picture message to the chatroom while playing a notification sound.
Sending first picture message2:38
Download Image part 19:06
Download Image part 27:17
Creating JSQ photo image10:13
Creating Photo Message6:35
Test run to receive first picture message1:44

Requirements

Computer running macOS
xCode (free from AppStore)
You should know your way around xCode
You need to have experience in swift development

Description

In iOS12 Chat App we are going to build real world iOS application. And when I say real world, I mean you can use this App every day, communicate with friends and family!

Unlike any other courses found on Udemy, I always teach full real world apps, when we finish with the course, you are going to have an app ready to post to AppStore. This iOS12 Chat Application can easily replace your native iOS chat app or WhatsApp. It will have all functions that WhatsApp provides.

What our app will include:

One on one chat
Group chat
Multimedia messages (Photo, Video, Audio, Location)
Fully end to end encryption
Push Notifications
Call function
CallKit
PushKit
Firebase users Authentication
Firebase storage
Firebase firestore (new real time database from firebase)
Phone number authentication
Custom uicollection views
Custom UITableviews
OneSignal
Sinch
Git Source control
the app covers many more topics its impossible to include all of them here

This iOS12 Chat App is NOT beginner level course. You need to know your way around the xCode, be familiar with it, you have to have basic knowledge in Swift and application building. We are going to start from scratch and build the application together. All assets will be provided by me. I will type and explain every line of code. the course is around 35 hours long. And by the time we finish, you will learn a lot of new things even if you are experienced iOS developer.

The curse will teach you how to write clean code, structure your app development, so even if you get back to your code in few years, you can read and understand it clearly.

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Who this course is for:

If you are intermediate iOS developer and want to take your skills to next level of real world app development

iOS 12 Chat Application like WhatsApp and Viber

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Getting started1 lecture • 5min

Welcome View9 lectures • 1hr 9min

Finish registration view13 lectures • 1hr 41min

Displaying users from firebase14 lectures • 1hr 29min

Profile View Controller6 lectures • 53min

Recent Chats9 lectures • 1hr 11min

Recent Chats view controller9 lectures • 1hr 22min

Chat view Controller8 lectures • 58min

Outgoing message Class5 lectures • 43min

Back to chats view controller27 lectures • 3hr 37min

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