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We now offer Ably Chat—a new family of SDKs and APIs that streamline development and manage realtime chat complexity for you. For a modern, easier way to create chat experiences, visit our [Ably Chat documentation](https://ably.com/docs/chat).\n\n# Flutter chat app demo\n\nThis is a basic chat app built with [Flutter](https://flutter.dev/) and [Ably](https://www.ably.io/).\n\nYou can check out a [short video demo of this application along with some explanation of the code](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwytqIh8km0).\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1000\" alt=\"Ably Flutter chat app screenshot\" src=\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5900152/98269650-e64f4c00-1f85-11eb-807a-0852ed90b813.png\"\u003e\n\n## How to run this app locally\n\n1. Clone this repo and cd to the folder containing the project files:\n\n`git clone https://github.com/ably-labs/flutter-chat-demo.git`\n\n`cd flutter-chat-demo/realtime_chat_ably`\n\n2. [Create a free account with Ably](https://www.ably.io/signup) to get your API Key.\n\n3. Add a file called `config.dart` in `/realtime_chat_ably/lib` and paste the following: \n\n```\nconst String AblyAPIKey = \"YOUR-ABLY-API-KEY\";\n```\n\nReplace the placeholder with your own API Key\n\n4. Run `flutter packages get` to install the dependencies\n\n5. Open two or more simulators on your system\n\n6. Run `flutter run -d all` to run the app on all the simulator devices\n\nWhen you send a message in one of the devices, it should come up in realtime on all the devices.\n\n\n---\n\n## What is Ably?\n\n[Ably](https://www.ably.io/) is a pub/sub messaging platform with a suite of integrated services to deliver complete realtime functionality directly to end-users. \n\nThis project uses [Ably's Flutter plugin](https://pub.dev/packages/ably_flutter_plugin/) to enable realtime chat between any number of users.\n\n---\n\nThe app's UI is adopted from Marcus Ng's YouTube video - [Flutter Chat UI Tutorial | Apps From Scratch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-igXZCCrrc)\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1000\" alt=\"YouTube video screenshot\" src=\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5900152/101506105-f2f00700-396c-11eb-8283-124f40b0a3c6.png\"\u003e\n\n## Other notes\n\n- All of Ably's messaging limits, broken down by package can be found in a [support article](https://support.ably.com/support/solutions/articles/3000053845-do-you-have-any-connection-message-rate-or-other-limits-on-accounts-).\n\n- If you have any questions, please [leave a message to me directly on Twitter](https://www.twitter.com/Srushtika) or reach out to Ably's support team at [support@ably.com](mailto:support@ably.com).\n\n- It'll be amazing and helpful to other developers to add more features to this chat app, please check out the open issues if you'd like to contribute to this project.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fably-labs%2Fflutter-chat-demo","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fably-labs%2Fflutter-chat-demo","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fably-labs%2Fflutter-chat-demo/lists"}