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InsightsAug 5, 2019

The Scaling Challenge in App Dev with Real-time Features

Apps have changed the way we connect, get around, eat, play, meet, and everything in between. That’s a ripe opportunity, but with great opportunity comes great challenges.

Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team
ChatAug 2, 2019

Layer Shutdown: How to Migrate from Layer to PubNub

With Layer shutting down on October 30th, here’s everything you need to know about migrating your chat application to PubNub.

Nishith Agarwal
Nishith Agarwal
Product Manager, PubNub
ChatAug 2, 2019

Building a Laravel Chat App with PHP, Vue.js, and PubNub

How to build a fully-featured chat application for web browsers with Laravel, PHP, Vue.js, and PubNub.

Shyam Purkayastha
Shyam Purkayastha
CTO & Co-Founder, IoTracX
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ChatAug 2, 2019

Building a React Native Chat App-  Part 3: Online User Count

Part Three of an ever-growing React Native chat tutorial series, covering implementing Presence for realtime user count.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
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BuildAug 1, 2019

Real-time Stocks with Go Lang - Why It Matters to You

At PubNub we have had a Real Time stocks demo for quite some time, deployed at http://rtstock.co. While it functions, the implementation is not very good. On the backend it uses PHP to generate random stocks data, publish this data to PubNub’s network, populate a channel group with stock names,...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildAug 1, 2019

Build a Java Chat App For Android: Getting Started (1/4)

Welcome to our 4-part tutorial on building a feature-rich mobile chat application for Android with PubNub and Java, providing APIs and infrastructure for building real-time applications. Android Java Chat Tutorial Overview By the end of this tutorial series, you’ll have a fully-functional Android chat...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildAug 1, 2019

Accelerating App Delivery with Android, Fabric and PubNub

Welcome to our series on Android development with Fabric! In previous tutorials, we’ve shown you how to create apps with technologies like Android or PhoneGap. In this blog entry, we highlight a new toolkit, Twitter Fabric, that accelerates mobile app development and helps you build an app with...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildAug 1, 2019

Build a Location-Aware App with Twitter Fabric, MapBox

Hello, and welcome back to our series on Android development with Fabric and PubNub! In previous articles, we’ve shown how to create a powerful chat app with Android, Fabric, and Digits. In this blog entry, we highlight 2 key technologies, Twitter Fabric (mobile development toolkit) and MapBox...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildAug 1, 2019

Ditch Email Authentication with Twitter Fabric and Digits

In this blog entry we will update the real-time app from last time, with Digits for Android, an easy to use mobile identity provider that obsoletes authentication via email. With Digits for Android we can accelerate mobile app development and build an app with several real-time data features that you...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll