Build a WhatsApp Clone in a Day
The market for messaging apps is exploding. People are looking for alternatives to standard text messaging. Since the opportunity huge, why not create a messaging app? In this post, we’ll walk you through a bare bones WhatsApp clone (we’ll call it KiiChat) for Android that you can build with minimal effort by leveraging Kii Cloud. Good news is that with the rise of mobile backend services such as Kii.com, it has become very easy to create such applications very quickly If you live on another planet, you probably don’t know that WhatsApp (recently bought by Facebook) is the most popular cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages (without having to pay for SMS), create groups, send unlimited images, video and audio media messages between members all over the world. Development of server-side functionality is essential to creating instant messanging apps like Skype, WhatsApp or LINE and, until now, individual developers had to implem...