Tinodios: Tinode Messaging Client for iOS

iOS client for Tinode in Swift.

Status: beta. Usable and mostly stable but bugs may happen.

Installing and running

This is NOT a standalone app, this is just a frontend, a client. It requires a backend. See installation instructions.

Read server-side API documentation.
For support, general questions, discussions post to https://groups.google.com/d/forum/tinode.
For bugs and feature requests open an issue.
Use https://tinode.co/contact for commercial inquiries.

One-on-one conversations and group chats.
Channels with unlimited number of read-only subscribers.
Unread message counters.
Push notifications and in-app presence notifications.
Message status notifications: message delivery to server; received and read notifications.
Markdown-style formatting of text, e.g. *style* → style.
Replying and forwarding messages.
Trusted account badges: verified account, staff, etc.
Form messages suitable for chatbots.
Attachments and inline images.
Muting/un-muting conversations and other granular permission management.
Integration with iOS's stock Contacts.
Invite contacts to the app by SMS or email.
Transport Level Security - https/wss.
Offline mode.

SQLite.swift for convenience of SQLite use.
SwiftKeychainWrapper for convenience of Keychain access.
PhoneNumberKit for normalizing phone numbers.
Kingfisher for out-of-band image handling.
Google Firebase for push notifications, analytics, and crash reporting. See below.

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. The config file contains keys specific to your Firebase/FCM registration.
Copy Google-provided server key to tinode.conf, see details here.