Tutorials

PubNub's Chat SDK is recommended for developers who want to create new chat applications or add in-app chat to existing applications. The SDK supports everything you need to develop chat, from simple message exchange to advanced features like quoting, unread message counts, and emoji reactions. PubNub also provides several CORE SDKs that are use-case agnostic and can be used to create any real-time solution, but this tutorial will focus on the CHAT SDK.

This tutorial will guide you through creating a simple chat app using the flexible PubNub SDK: Sending and receiving chat messages, member presence and looking up past messages. NOTE: This tutorial predates the introduction of our dedicated CHAT SDKs; developers creating chat apps should use our CHAT SDKs which support JavaScript / Typescript, Unreal, Kotlin, Swift, and Unity.