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i am currently working on a real-time chat app in Unity and i found those platforms to work with,

Firebase : Can we send Videos efficiently ??
MatriX : https://www.ag-software.net/matrix-xmpp-sdk/ but i am not sure that we can send videos with MatriX ?

i wanted to know from your experience
what is the best way to make real-time chatting (support photos and videos sending) in Unity ?

thanks in advance

Qusai Azzam
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You need to find or create services where your clients can connect and:

  1. upload files (photos, videos .etc) and get an public and downloadable URL.
  2. send messages to other connected clients that apart from the string, also contain media metadata (.eg a list of file attachments which are actually URLs uploaded at service (1))

Now, if you cannot find a single service that supports those two then you could try to find two different ones.

here is an example of a chat console application in C#. It contains a web service and client library that is used by the console app. Instead of a console app, it could be used in a Unity app. It does not support file uploading but it can send messages between clients over web sockets.

If you were to create something yourself, instead of finding a 3rd party service, I would recommend node.js/express and socket.io for a server since its quite beginner friendly.

here is a C# client library that can listen to socket.io events from the server. It must be the same that is used in the console application I shared above.

Angelos Kyriakopoulos
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