rahimkhalid / Chat-App-Ello

A chatting app which uses Firebase as realtime DB, gmail authentication as user verification, twilio for video calling

Chat-App-Ello

A chatting app with signup, login, chatting with anyone signed-up on this app and even calling them.

Basically, This app includes :

1. Firebase as realtime DB.
2. Gmail authentication as user verification.
3. Twilio for video calling.

Adding Firebase to the project :

To add firebase to your project kindly follow the below link.

A Quick Starter to FireBase : (https://firebase.google.com/docs/ios/setup)

Twilio Video in this project :

A quick starter to TWILIO : (https://github.com/twilio/video-quickstart-swift)

This project already contain code to have video calling with any contact, but to use that feature *Goto twilio console and register for video calling feature, moreover there is also code writen which allows you to connect with the server with twilio established. *

Please see the following files for more information about Twilio activation :

1. VideoCallViewController.m

For using a 30 mins twilio valid key :

1. Replace the accessToken with twilio granted key: self.accessToken = @"TWILIO_ACCESS_TOKEN";

For using server to provide video session keys :

1. Replace the tokenUrl in the below line with your url : self.tokenUrl =[NSString stringWithFormat:@"YOUR SERVER URL"];
2. No need to update self.accessToken = @"TWILIO_ACCESS_TOKEN"; with twilio key.