Things like chat, push notifications, video calling and location-triggered suggestions / geofencing is something many talk about but not many apps feature those functionalities. And there is a reason for that - all these features sound simple but are difficult to implement if you try and build a reliable and scalable server-side infrastructure to support them.
On our mission of unlocking the technology into mobile, QuickBlox explains all these technologies are not as complex as you have thought - with our SDK and code samples it takes just 3 lines of code to add, for example, video calling or geofencing.
3. QuickBlox: Communication and Data modules
QuickBlox is an enterprise mBaaS cloud providing
Communication and Backend services for any application
together with APIs, SDKs and code samples:
Video
Communication
Chat
&
Presence
Notifications
Location
Ratings
Content
Users
10. Chat / IM and Push Notifications
• Very quick and robust chat/IM experience
• File attachments supported
• Push notification alerts for offline users
• Thumbnail previews for photo and video
attachments
• Location attachments
http://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-chat_usersios
12. Video calling SDK: launched February 2013
QuickBlox is the 1st BaaS to launch Video Calling (VideoChat SDK)
– as featured by TheNextWeb,
20th Feb 2013
20-40 developers sign
ups per day
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/02/20/quickblox/
http://quickblox.com/
13. Video chat for iOS and Android
•iOS and Android video calling
• Free
• Peer to peer
• 3 lines of code
iOS
Android
http://quickblox.com/developer
s/SimpleSample-videochat-ios
http://quickblox.com/develope
rs/Sample-videochat-android
15. Clients
Also among QuickBlox clients (contracts signed or in discussion)
AVON uses QuickBlox for ‘Kisses Map’ feature for its Send-a-KissFacebook app in
UK and Ireland.
Liverpool Football Club uses QuickBlox Chat and Location for fans communication.
In partnership with BlackBerry we have powered apps of Liverpool Football Club,
DSTV,
Man City FC with QuickBlox and have created Facebook library for BB10 developers.
DSTV (most popular Digital TV in Africa) users QuickBlox to enable interactive
discussion (chat, ratings, push notifications) in its TV guide app.
AVON uses QuickBlox for ‘Kisses Map’ feature for its Send-a-KissFacebook app in UK
and Ireland.
The Norway based technical team of ING Bank is in discussion with us regarding using
QuickBlox to reach the clients of ING bank apps.
Barclays uses QuickBlox Location and ChattAR for its Accessible ATM Locator project.
QuickBlox has been used in the official iPhone app of the Avatar movie by 20th Century
Fox. It enables location-based fan communication (chat over map) feature.
17. Unite, retain and engage your
user base! (while saving time and
money too)
Video
Communication
Chat
&
Presence
Notifications
Location
Ratings
Content
Users
Adding location triggered push notifications is very easy with QuickBlox Location – just create a geo-fencing area in the admin panel (Location) and then assign a push notification to it (Messages). Once user is in the area, they will receive a push notification regarding a deal available nearby or some other location-triggered information.
Our ChattAR project is available open source – there is a group chat with proximity filtering, Map view and AR (Augmented Reality) view. Some companies build their own products and social networks just on the basis of ChattAR – for example ChatPoints by Emka Digital from Israel.
Good location sharing example – Send a kiss Facebook app