This application should give you a ready-made starting point for writing your own messaging apps with Twilio IP Messaging. Before we begin, we need to collect all the credentials we need to run the application:
| Credential | Description |
|---|---|
| Twilio Account SID | Your main Twilio account identifier - find it on your dashboard. |
| IP Messaging Service SID | Like a database ID for all your messaging app's data. Info on how to create one below. |
| API Key | Used to authenticate - generate one here. |
| API Secret | Used to authenticate - just like the above, you'll get one here. |
| TwiML App | Generate one using this repo |
When you generate an API key pair at the URLs above, your API Secret will only
be shown once - make sure to save this in a secure location,
or possibly your ~/.bash_profile.
A service instance provides a shared scope for all the messages, users, and data in our IP Messaging application. It's like a new database for all your app's data.
To create one, we can use the REST API - execute
the following curl command in your terminal to create a service instance, whose
SID you can use in your application. Replace YourAppName with an identifier
you would like to use, and {api key} and {api secret} with the values you
got from the step above.
curl -XPOST https://ip-messaging.twilio.com/v1/Services \
-d "FriendlyName=YourAppName" \
-u '{api key}:{api secret}'Your new service SID will be prefixed with an IS in the JSON data you get back.
Just run the 'LoginActivity' and you're good to go! The app will generate a username and autoconnect to the 'general' channel
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