Help: Adding more functionality to my cloud-based chat app

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And also things defined in desc

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Video AND Voice and Video calls

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And Video sendong seperately

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Welcome.

chat app (cloud-based).--- are you using CloudDB, FirebaseDB or your own server for something else? Be aware CloudDB can only store a limited number of images and only links to videos etc.

How can I add camera function ... Camera

, youtube ..use a WebViewer possibly or research something in these links https://community.appinventor.mit.edu/search?q=youtube

and facebook perhaps Sharing

video support, VideoPlayer

multimedia sharing, perhaps Sharing

voice recorder, SoundRecorder
and time sent? Clock
Can I also include sticker support? ????? You can place emogi in a Label or a Text block.

All this advice can be found in http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/reference/components/

You ask a lot of questions. Perhaps reading these resources will help :slight_smile:
Here are some resources to help you learn to use the AI2 tools.

A very good way to learn App Inventor is to read the free Inventor's Manual here in the AI2 free online eBook http://www.appinventor.org/book2 ... the links are at the bottom of the Web page. The book 'teaches' users how to program with AI2 blocks.

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To do everything you want to do you probably should use a professional compiler instead of the AI2 educational compiler. AI2 can do lots of things but if you want full capability try Android Studio. It is free.

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To a voice call use the voice recorder component and put this code:

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Button 1 started the call. You can also use the same system to stop it with a button 2.

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On nother screen?

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Please put a video of how to do all these stuff.

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How can we do video calls

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Same screen, the callsScreen, witha button start call and a button exit call.
I need to try to find a solution for video calls.
For sending a image or video, use 2 buttons: take picture, record video. pick media can be done using imagepicker component. and saving it to cloud DB as a message.

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so, you mean nother screen?

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CloudDB has been used

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But it's Java and Kotlin! Look, I'm just a beginner in programming, but I've made some nice apps.

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Is Kotlin hard?
IDK

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Is Firebase better? and How much storage has it contained?

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So, I have 2qs

  1. Which is bigger, Firebase or CloudDB?
  2. How can I make a system where someone specifies his chat room and the system makes it automatically?
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Why? We see more users who are really impatient?

If you want answers you have to ask the right questions. Yours are not very clear.

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  1. Bigger ? How much data can they hold? Which one is faster? Which one costs more to run? Features and Functionality?
  2. Follow the tutorials on building chat room apps
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Wich one has more support and storage

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Support: probably Firebase has a more consumer facing support function (CloudbDB - redis - is much more of a backend techy thing....)
Storage: depends on how much money you have! Firebase offers 10G on a free account, if you run your own redis server you pay your hosting costs only and use the "free" space on offer. RedisLabs/Google/AWS etc. offer redis solutions, but not sure if these will connect to AI2 because of the poor/different way they handle SSL.