The Chat App (SwiftUI)

What You'll Learn

SMS Authentication

You'll learn how to use Firebase Phone authentication. This allows users to create an account by sending an SMS message to their phone.
Real Time Chat

You'll learn how to establish a real time connection to your database so you can receive data as it is posted. This is essential for a chat or message app!
Address Book

You'll learn how to request for permission and access the user's Address Book so that you can retrieve contact details.
Firebase Storage

You'll learn how to upload and retrieve images from Firebase Storage. This will enable users to set profile images and post images to chat!
Firestore Database

You'll learn how to structure the database while considering the scenarios that we need to query.
Custom Designed UI

This app will feature a UI from our designer and you'll learn the design side of the app as well as how to translate it to code in Xcode.

Course curriculum

1. Before You Start This Course
2. Resources
1. Lesson 1: Introduction
2. Lesson 2: Plugins
3. Lesson 3: Setting Requirements
4. Lesson 4: Wireframing
5. Lesson 5: UI Design - Color, Typography, Illustrations
6. Lesson 6: UI Design - Creating the Onboarding Experience
7. Lesson 7: UI Design - Designing the Chat List
8. Lesson 8: UI Design - Designing the Chat UI
9. Lesson 9: UI Design - Designing the Contact List
10. Lesson 10: Bonus Challenge
1. Lesson 1: Introduction
2. Lesson 2: Setting up the Xcode Project
3. Lesson 3: Overview of the App Architecture
4. Lesson 4: Creating a Custom Tab Bar
5. Lesson 5: Setting Up the Firebase Project
6. Lesson 6: Building the UI for the onboarding sequence
7. Lesson 7: Fetching the User's Contacts
8. Lesson 8: Uploading the Profile Image
9. Lesson 9: Firebase Phone Authentication
10. Lesson 10: Securing the Database
11. Lesson 11: Creating the Contacts List View
12. Lesson 12: Building the Contacts Row
13. Lesson 13: Building the Conversation UI
14. Lesson 14: Chat Data in the Database
15. Lesson 15: Chat Data Database Operations
16. Lesson 16: Dynamic Conversation and Chat List
17. Lesson 17: Dynamic Conversation and Chat List (Part 2)
18. Lesson 18: Styling the Chat List
19. Lesson 19: Real Time Chatting
20. Lesson 20: Cleaning Up Bugs
21. Lesson 21: Photos in Chat
22. Lesson 22: New Chat Message UI
23. Lesson 23: New Chat Message Functionality
24. Lesson 24: Group Chat Functionality
25. Lesson 25: Group Chat Functionality (Part II)
26. Lesson 26: Settings View
27. Lesson 27: Dark Mode
28. Lesson 28: Delete Account
29. Lesson 29: Handling Deleted Users
30. Lesson 30: Bug Fixing (Part I)
31. Lesson 31: Bug Fixing (Part II)