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Android Build a Self-Destructing Message Android App Retrieving and Viewing Messages Using Picasso to View Images from the Web

Aman Dhapola
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Adding Real time chat service like whatsapp

How to add real time messaging and chat service to this app??

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Connor Myers
Connor Myers
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Connor Myers
Connor Myers
21,089 Points

You would need to create 2 listviews to put onto their respective sides of the screen, and a custom layout with an edit textfield at the bottom to add text and then attach whatever it is that you need as well as a button to send the message to update the textfields in the custom listview that you have created. If you want to get even more fancy you can add the time the message was created in the listview as a text view using the Date java class.