Group Chat Feature

Question

I want to add a chat to my xamarin.forms app. I've read alot of documentations about creating chats in c# but still I couldn't get an answer some of my questions:

What is the best(performance) way to create a chatroom(like a groupchat) i've read using a thread per room could be a solution but this seems senseless to me ...
Is there any Git-Projekt which implements a groupchat function where I can get some insights ?
What do I have to keep in mind in terms of my infrastructure - how can I connect my chat to SQL ?

I know these are alot of questions but I really dont know where to start. I hope someone can help me out.

You should take a look at SignalR, there are a lot of guides on how to create a chat application with it. — Andreas Fredriksson, Jun 15 '16 at 06:56
@AndreasFredriksson wow that looks nice - never heard of it before — Felix D., Jun 15 '16 at 06:57

jzeferino · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-15T07:08:55.077

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I've been using PubNub for a while, and its awesome.

You can consult examples in Android and iOS.

It has full PCL support so you don't have to do specific Android/iOS code to exchange messages. I've also read a lot of the tests they have in the PCL and get good information from that.

You have Real Time Framework, to exchange real time messages.

They also have a very good support.

For the SQL, you have SQLite-net.

edited Jun 15 '16 at 07:08

answered Jun 15 '16 at 07:06

jzeferino

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Please @Nudity mark my answer as correct if it helped you. Thank you – jzeferino Jun 16 '16 at 07:56
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I wont forget about it :D just tryin to implement that chat you reccomended to my app ^^ – Felix D. Jun 16 '16 at 07:59
Ok. they have very very good support, plus they have good examples to. – jzeferino Jun 16 '16 at 08:00

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