How to Build Group Chat with Flutter?
What is Flutter group chat?
Flutter group chat enables real time Communication in the group by the member of the group.
Language:- Flutter’s dart language.
Features:-
The top most features of the group chat is-
- Group can have no limitation for User or Messages.
- User gets the update of how many messages he doesn’t read.
- We kept the users and group static to control the accessibility of the app by any user.
- If user wants to be a part of the chat application they need to request the login id and Password from admin and when admin create and provide them to the user, the user will be able to login in the chat application.
- We kept the group static to take over the control of the groups. Admin only will be able to create the group in the application.
- Supports in both Android & IOS.
Reliability:-
- Chat is in real time and never loses messages or Connections.
- Group can have no limitation for Users or Messages.
- Admin will have the authority to add the user and groups in the application.
Installation Libraries:- Dependencies for Flutter and its Libraries
- firebase_database
- firebase_analytics
Installation:- Firebase Connection
Android
- In app -> build.gradle
dependencies {
implementation ‘com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics:17.2.2’
}
apply plugin: ‘com.google.gms.google-services
- In Project Gradle file Add in buildscript -> dependencies
classpath ‘com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.3’
- Register app with firebase and download google-services.json.
IOS
- Register app with firebase and download GoogleService-Info.plist.
The following shows How to use the app
final reference = FirebaseDatabase.instance.reference().child(“xyz”).child(
‘message’);
FirebaseAnimatedList(
query: reference,
reverse: true,
sort: (a, b) => b.key.compareTo(a.key),
//comparing timestamp of messages to check which one would appear first
itemBuilder: (_, DataSnapshot messageSnapshot,
Animation<double> animation, int) {
return new ChatMessageListItem(
messageSnapshot: messageSnapshot,
animation: animation,
);
},
);
Final Thought:
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