Swift-iOS-Messaging-App

A messaging app written in Swift using firebase. This was really just a way to play with a range of static and dynamic UITableViews and UITableViewControllers with some custom cells. Took just over a week to make. Still alot of room for improvements and fixes but it works alright i guess. It is beginning to hit the limit of what firebase iOS can do such as not being able to delete collections. Might continue with this in the future when I have a lil backend system for it, so that can do some of the heavy lifting instead.

Screenshots:

Login:

Chats:

Send Messages:

Group Chats:

Features:

• Securely register and login with email & password using Firebase
• All data is securely stored in a Firestore.
• Create chats
• Add & remove users from chats
• All menus / data update in realtime so no delay between users.
• Change the bubble colour for each user and the colour for the chat.

Things I've learnt during this project

• NoSQL Databases - how to structure and organise data.
• Firebase authentication.
• Firebase's NoSQL database Firestore.
• Creating and using custom cells within a table view.

Packages used

• Firebase / Auth - for authentication
• Firebase / Firestore - for storage of the messages and the data
• IQKeyboardManager - to provide a easy way to have a better keyboard.
• ChameleonFramework - for pretty colours.