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How to make the most of PubNub’s Dashboards

This How-to guide will explain the different dashboards PubNub offers, what metrics they contain, when you would use them, and where you can find them.
Chat

Building Chat: Dealing with timestamps

Follow this how-to to understand how to deal with and format timestamps for PubNub Chat applications.
Collaboration

Build Collaborative Applications

Follow this how-to and learn how you can build and power your real-time collaborative applications with PubNub.
Chat

How to Build a Telemedicine App

Read our complete guide on making your own telemedicine app. In this guide, you’ll learn about telemedicine, HIPPA, PHI, and solutions for building.
Push Notifications

Enabling Mobile Push Notifications: Android

Follow this how-to to enable PubNub's Mobile Push Gateway in the Admin Portal to send your Android users push notifications and alerts.
Virtual Events

How to Build Chat for Virtual Events

Virtual events need chat to keep users engaged, but it's often a challenge to build a chat solution that works at scale and can handle the network load surges that occur during popular events. As a developer, you need to select a robust backend API provider capable of transmitting and receiving the high volume of messages that your viewers and participants generate.
PubNub portal

Enabling Persistence

Follow this how-to to enable Persistence in the Admin Portal to persist all messages as they're published.
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Chat

How to Build Cross-Platform Chat Applications with PubNub

If your team is developing a cross-platform application you have a number of options to choose from but whichever approach you take, from web-only to cross-platform frameworks, PubNub can easily incorporate chat into your app.
Chat

How to build a chat app using HTML, CSS, Vue, & JS

Read our complete guide to build a chat app using HTML, CSS, Vue, and JS. Read this and our other information building interactive chat apps.