Firebase Chat App Updates and Reflections

Due to popular request, I've went ahead and update each lesson for the Firebase Chat Messenger application to now be compatible with Xcode 8.3 using Swift 3.1. This took quite a bit of time to update so I hope you guys get the most out of the source code.

Furthermore, I had some time to add in my thoughts about the project and a few things I would do differently if I could reshoot the series.

Enjoy.

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[sethmerritt]

Just wanted to say your videos were super helpful! I am pretty novice at Swift and coding in general, but I made it through the whole series and got all of the features implemented. I feel like I learned a ton from your lessons. Very much appreciated!

[Dayank]

I would like to say, you are a legend. You have helped me introduce a Chat section to my current app, and while it did end up with quite a few bugs after a while (image size issues, layout issues, video playback issue). I managed to have them fixed and improved and everythings smooth once again.
I would like to thank you again, without your education I would not have been able to do the great things I do today.
Your work is greatly valued.
Thanks!!!

[enriqueavina]

Thank you so much for these series, I was looking to learn FireBase and I thought the amount of videos was daunting, but it has been very rewarding. Cheers.

[nyghtwel]

I am definitely buying all your courses this summer, when I have time. So please keep uploading more courses!!!

[ACHVPEAK]

Hey Brian,

Keep putting out the killer content! So many of your videos have helped me out with building my app. I don't think I would be where I am without the aid of your channel!

DJ

[nhantrivinh]

This guy is a beast. Much iOS love brian!

[danielgormly]

Currently studying software engineering at university. I'm in my third year and I've come to the realisation that they won't be teaching frameworks. Your channel is exactly what I've been looking for for the last 10 years. In less than a week I've been able to get myself around iOS.

Thank you for keeping it simple. Keep it up!

[Mark-xjry]

Hey brian, I was wondering for remote push notifications if it is possible to install the firebase messinging pod after we already installed our selected pods

[jiansu]

I follow a lot of your video and purchased some. But I don't see you have a series which cover map kit. This is pretty important subject and I would love to pay for it and learn from you.

[sonammalviya]

hello brain i would like to thanks for all tutorials which is very awesome i just want to ask an question belonging to firebase chat app. All the functionality works very cool.But when the user is not using an app then how we notify to particular user that another person sent a message to him.

[boblin]

Wonderful tutorial for realtime chat App. Just a few questions for the improvement.
1) Any suggestions to persist the messages locally, then people can check the existing messages without internet
2) Any solution to observe the messages in specified count. If there are too many messages in one chat dialog, the messages can be pulled separated via refreshControl
3) How to notify user there are new messages even the chat dialog view or message list view is not in screen, like the app is currently show other viewController

[renatterita]

Hi!
Do you plan a video about how to use instruments?
Thank you very much for your cool videos!

[Juangunner]

Coud you help me with getting the Firebase analytics to show I have been trying to figure out why for a while but I did everything and nothing shows up.

[FR]

Would it be possible to create a group chat application from this? It would take some manipulating of the database structure but would the general idea be to create another group node w/ lists of the user IDs and message IDs in the group, except would the toIDs and fromIDs be replaced with the group ID?

[Omeir]

Hey Brian, I love your videos and the work you do. Its beyond amazing to be honest. I've learnt a lot from you.
I have a request for you. Could you please teach us to build an messaging app using Siri to send messages and also searching for messages ? I would even pay you to do so.
Thank you in advance.

[SuperMarucca]

Hi Bryan, when updating to swift 9 in ChatLogController, on = $1})" it give me an error: "Closure tuple parameter '(key: String, value: Any)' does not support destructuring with implicit parameters" ... How can I solved it? thanks in advance and have a nice day :)

[korint]

Hey Brian, is there a way to start the chat at the bottom instead of automatically scrolling to the bottom every time?

[wyteco]

Hello Brian, thank you for all of your tutorials! They are very well structured and explained. I have an idea for another (paid/) project you could start doing as a tutorial series on your website. A Spotify Let's Build. I think this is interesting for many of us because it contains handling of audio files, modifying of audio signals (optional, e.g EQs), and user-oriented recommendations of new or popular tracks. Thank you! Warm regards, Oscar

[starslife]

should I use firebase for image, document, mp3 sharing app .

[alessandroverrecchia]

Hey what is your opinion on xamarin? especially on X. forms