As ChatKitty grows, more and more customers who have operations in Europe have reached out for service and support. So naturally, their most asked questions are about GDPR. And we always tell them; ChatKitty was developed with GDPR in mind. We are a GDPR compliant processor.

In this tutorial series, I'll be showing you how to build a functional and secure chat app using the latest React Native libraries, and the Expo framework powered by the ChatKitty platform. Part 4 covers enhancing your chat app's user experience with direct messaging, typing indicators, user presence change notifications and much more.

Using a chat SDK not only can shorten your development time, but also help you build a stable product and scale quickly. Before you instruct your team to start investing time adding all available features from ChatKitty, have you identified your product's purpose, and its primary use case?

In this tutorial series, I'll be showing you how to build a functional and secure chat app using the latest React Native libraries and the Expo framework, powered by the ChatKitty platform. Part 3 covers setting up in-app and push notifications with Expo and ChatKitty Chat Functions to inform users when new messages are received or relevant actions happen.

In this tutorial series, I'll be showing you how to build a functional and secure chat app using the latest React Native libraries and the Expo framework, powered by the ChatKitty platform. Part 2 covers creating public channels for users to discover, join and chat with other users. Build a full featured chat screen with the Gifted Chat React Native library.

In this tutorial series, I'll be showing you how to build a functional and secure chat app using the latest React Native libraries, the Expo framework, and Firebase, powered by the ChatKitty platform. Part 1 covers using Firebase Authentication and ChatKitty Chat Functions to securely implement user login.

No matter what community application you build, its chat experience is the glue to bring users together. Big companies have the human power and capital to spend on a team to optimize their chat features. Even if their features sucks, their branding or market influence can bring in users and keep them around. For a startup, we can't afford to take those kinds of risks. Even if you haven't prioritized chat, a good Chat API can help you catch up.

Having a discoverable API makes it easier for your users to understand and build mental models of your application. New data and relationships can be found without the user knowing of their existence. It also makes it easy to inline documentation with links to external documentation.

STOMP is a straightforward and easy to use open protocol that provides an interoperable text based format for message brokers and applications to communicate. STOMP allows real-time messaging components to share messages and communicate effectively.