Firebase Chat - Peer to Peer

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I am currently attempting to create a chat app, powered by Firebase. Ultimately, my goal is to allow users to message each other (pretty simple). However, I am currently stuck on how to accomplish this.

Right now, I am able to create one huge, group chat, where users can post under different usernames. But, for ideal functionality, I would need users to be able to message each other directly, and not in one huge group chat.

Any help would be appreciated!

If your questions is "how can I model user-to-user chat rooms?", then see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33540479/best-way-to-manage-chat-channels-in-firebase/33547123#33547123 — Frank van Puffelen, Feb 15 '16 at 06:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 15 '16 at 04:00

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If you go checkout JSQMessageViewController it is a pod that provides all the functionality of the messages app. They also have an example that is done by fireBase written in swift. That may be a great place to start and finish.

https://github.com/jessesquires/JSQMessagesViewController

answered Feb 15 '16 at 04:00

Dan Leonard

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Isn't that Group Chat only though? – dannybess Feb 15 '16 at 04:01
even if it is just limit it to only two users in the chat and now its no longer group chat. – Dan Leonard Feb 15 '16 at 04:02
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I use that library in my project and its great. – pbush25 Feb 15 '16 at 05:24
how to use this lib in swift 3 i need help in this @DanielLeonard – Dilip Tiwari Jul 23 '18 at 11:53
I would actually switch to MessageKit now it is the Swift version of this library. https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit – Dan Leonard Jul 24 '18 at 17:24

Firebase Chat - Peer to Peer

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