Tinodios: Tinode Messaging Client for iOS

iOS client for Tinode in Swift.

Status: work in progress.

The immediate goal is to have a basic end-to-end working application prototype that one will be able to install and use.

Features

Completed

• Login
• Register new accounts.
• Start new chats.
• Edit personal details.
• Edit chat parameters.
• View the list of active chats
• Send and receive plain text messages one-on-one or in group chats.
• In-app presence notifications.
• Unread message counters.
• Local data persistence.
• Transport Level Security - https/wss.
• Drafty: Markdown-style formatting of text, e.g. *style* → style.
• Viewing attachments and inline images.
• Delivery and received/read indicators for messages (little check marks in messages).
• Muting/un-muting conversations and other permission management.
• Invite contacts to the app by SMS or email.
• Push notifications.
• Attachments and inline images.

Not Done Yet

• Previews not generated for videos, audio, links or docs.
• Typing indicators.
• No support for multiple servers
• Mentions, hashtags.
• Replying or forwarding messages.
• End-to-End encryption.

Dependencies

SDK

• https://github.com/tidwall/SwiftWebSocket for websocket support

Application

• https://github.com/stephencelis/SQLite.swift for local persistence
• https://github.com/jrendel/SwiftKeychainWrapper
• GoogleService-Info.plist for push notifications. See below.

Push notifications

If you want to use the app with your own server and want push notification to work you have to set them up:

• Register at https://firebase.google.com/, set up the project if you have not done so already.
• Download your own config file GoogleService-Info.plist and place it in the Tinodios/ folder of your copy of the project under the name GoogleService-Info-Development.plist (for Debug builds) or GoogleService-Info-Production.plist (for Release builds). The config file contains keys specific to your Firebase/FCM registration. The project will not compile without the corresponding GoogleService-Info-{Development,Production}.plist.
• Copy Google-provided server key to tinode.conf, see details here.

Other

• Demo avatars and some other graphics are from https://www.pexels.com/ under CC0 license.
• Some iOS icons are from https://icons8.com/ under CC BY-ND 3.0 license.

Screenshots