stream-chat-android VS Stream-Framework

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Platform, language, and tech stack: React, Android, React Native, iOS, Flutter, Unreal, Angular, Unity, and UI Kits.

Nothing, but that hardly achieves the same thing. For example, if you're building an API that others will consume and you want to let them dynamically replace parts of the UI within your components, you'll have quite a challenge giving your users a simple and flexible API based on Views (see for example many things in Stream's SDK that I used to work on). Gets even more difficult if this is within a RecyclerView.

So that's the implementation we ended up with for now! You can find all of this code in the Chat Android SDK's GitHub repository if you want to look at it in a real project.

Check out Stream on Github. They have a few chat SDKs for iOS, Android, React and a few others. Website: https://getstream.io/

We’ll use our very own Android Chat SDK in our examples. This SDK is made up of multiple artifacts, but for simplification, we’ll just talk about publishing the low-level networking client, which lives in the stream-chat-android-client module of the GitHub repository.

We already ship a UI Components library in our Chat SDK which contains ready-to-go, fully-featured Android Views to drop into your app, along with ViewModels that let you connect them to business logic in just a single line of code. You can check out how that works in our Android Chat Tutorial.

Both CometChat and Stream offer developer-friendly APIs and SDKs to help teams build in-app chat, voice, video, and moderation features quickly. If you're comparing the two, it's important to go beyond surface-level similarities. The best option depends on the scale, performance, and flexibility your app demands.

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Stream is a platform that allows developers to add rich chat and video features to their applications. Instead of dealing with the complexity of creating chat and video from the ground up, Stream provides APIs and SDKs to help you add them quickly and easily.

The Monthly Active Users (MAU) model is one of the most widely used pricing models in the industry. Providers like CometChat, Sendbird, Twilio, and Stream charge based on the number of unique active users per month.

Stream provides scalable and feature-rich APIs for building real-time chat and messaging applications. The Stream Chat SDK offers:

In today's fast-paced digital world, real-time communication is key. Whether you're building a messaging app, a social media platform, or a customer support system, integrating a reliable and scalable chat solution is crucial. This is where GetStream.io comes into play. GetStream.io offers a robust chat API that makes it easy to add real-time chat functionality to your applications. In this post, we'll explore how to leverage GetStream.io to create seamless and engaging chat experiences.

I have looked into a getstream.io integration, however it seems that the Ruby SDK is really treated as a second class citizen. There's bugs with the documented API (I'm having issues even creating users and querying users), the usage of the gem is low and there is an open issue since May that no one has even looked at, which doesn't give me hope for long term support.

An ultralight social media app with no dependencies that can run on shared web hosting. It's an API like Getstream, so F/E is up to you. I've had a fork of it in production for 2.5 years on a subscription site that generates a small income.

Now, I'm seeking your advice and opinions. If you have experience using Stream or MirrorFly for chat implementation, I'd greatly appreciate any insights you can provide. Here are some questions I have:

Think about the edge that you can have over thousands other people looking for a job like you. One of the ways to do it – tailor your (even small) experience to the company you are applying to. E.g. Let's take a company like Stream that have an open-source Swift SDK, try to contribute to their SDK, maybe close some `good-first-issue`s here and there, do some documentation improvements, enrich their example app. So that when you feel like you are ready to knock their door – you already have an edge over others – you don't need onboarding (because you already know most of their codebase, you even completed your first few tasks while yet not being employed!)