stream-chat-compose-experiment VS stream-chat-android

The project we're building in this article is available on GitHub, feel free to clone the project and play around with it on your own! We recommend getting your own Stream API key for this, which you can do by signing up for a free trial. Stream is free for hobby projects and small companies even beyond the trial - just apply for a free Maker account.

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/

afterEvaluate { publishing { publications { release(MavenPublication) { // The coordinates of the library, being set from variables that // we'll set up later groupId PUBLISH_GROUP_ID artifactId PUBLISH_ARTIFACT_ID version PUBLISH_VERSION // Two artifacts, the `aar` (or `jar`) and the sources if (project.plugins.findPlugin("com.android.library")) { from components.release } else { artifact("$buildDir/libs/${project.getName()}-${version}.jar") } artifact androidSourcesJar artifact javadocJar // Mostly self-explanatory metadata pom { name = PUBLISH_ARTIFACT_ID description = 'Stream Chat official Android SDK' url = 'https://github.com/getstream/stream-chat-android' licenses { license { name = 'Stream License' url = 'https://github.com/GetStream/stream-chat-android/blob/main/LICENSE' } } developers { developer { id = 'zsmb13' name = 'Márton Braun' email = '[email protected]' } // Add all other devs here... } // Version control info - if you're using GitHub, follow the // format as seen here scm { connection = 'scm:git:github.com/getstream/stream-chat-android.git' developerConnection = 'scm:git:ssh://github.com/getstream/stream-chat-android.git' url = 'https://github.com/getstream/stream-chat-android/tree/main' } } } } } }

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.