How to

Chat

Building Chat: Dealing with timestamps

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

How to Develop a Scoring System for a Game

Read our complete guide on developing a scoring system for a game. In this guide, you’ll learn to build a scoring system to make your game interactive and social.
How-to develop a real-time streaming application
Real-Time

How to Develop a real-time streaming application with PubNub

Learn how to develop a real-time streaming application with PubNub, allowing you to stream a continuous firehose of data to any number of recipients
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.
Gaming

How to Build Interactive 2d Chat Games

In this guide, we describe why you’d want to build a 2d game, types of 2d games, and tips for making your 2d games interactive, social, and engaging.
PubNub portal

Enabling Persistence

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