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Tutorials, demos, and code walkthroughs for a wide variety of real-time web, mobile, and IoT projects.

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
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BuildJul 30, 2019

Build a Smart Doorbell with Arduino, React Native, and Push

Find out when people are at your door from anywhere with a smart doorbell built with Arduino, React Native, and Mobile Push Notifications.

Chandler Mayo
Chandler Mayo
Solution Engineer, PubNub
BuildJul 30, 2019

Instant Push for iOS/Android from a React Native App

Implementing remote push notifications for both iOS and Android in a React Native app for a smart doorbell.

Chandler Mayo
Chandler Mayo
Solution Engineer, PubNub
BuildJul 30, 2019

Build an Internet of Things Smart Button with Arduino

Using PubNub and Arduino you can build a WiFi-enabled smart button that can be used for anything.

Chandler Mayo
Chandler Mayo
Solution Engineer, PubNub
BuildJul 29, 2019

Android Chat Tutorial with Java: All Things Messaging (2/4)

This is Part Two of our four-part series on building a mobile chat app for Android with PubNub. In our previous post, we gave an overview of the technologies we’ll use and showed you how to set up your Android environment. Now it’s time to start building chat. We’ll cover: Publishing...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildJul 29, 2019

Build Real-time Android Chat: User List With Presence

This is Part Three of our four part series on building a mobile chat app for Android with PubNub. In our previous part, we covered how to build basic Android messaging and storing message presence. In this part, we’ll dive deeper into Presence, including how we made the “Presence” (buddy...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildJul 29, 2019

AngularJS Chat Tutorial: Customizable Friend Lists (6/6)

This tutorial walks through building chat with our core pub/sub technology (and other PubNub features). We recently launched ChatEngine, a new framework for rapid chat development. Check out the ChatEngine AngularJS tutorial. → Welcome back to Part 6 of our PubNub series on how to build a complete chat...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll