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ChatOct 20, 2016

4 Must-Have Tutorials For Building an Android Chat App

Good News! We’ve launched an all new Chat Resource Center. We recommend checking out our new Chat Resource Center, which includes overviews, tutorials, and design patterns for building and deploying mobile and web chat. Take me to the Chat Resource Center → Android and Real-time are a match made...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildOct 19, 2016

Building a Dash Cam with Raspberry Pi, JavaScript

Dash cams have become very popular in the last few years. They even captured a giant meteor in Russia a few years ago. Seriously, a meteor! Why are they so popular? They are both useful and pretty simple. So simple, in fact, you can build your very own using JavaScript, a Raspberry Pi and some UI code,...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildOct 18, 2016

Easily Build Voice-Enabled Apps with Twitter Fabric, Digits

Hello, and welcome back to our series on Android development with Fabric and PubNub! In previous articles, we’ve shown how to create a powerful chat app with Android, Fabric, and Digits. In this blog entry, we highlight 2 key technologies, Twitter Fabric (mobile development toolkit) and Nuance...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildOct 13, 2016

DIY Android App Compares Bus Routes to Uber in Real time

As a city dweller, this definitely falls in the category of #firstworldproblems. Do I wait for the bus, hail a taxi, or call an Uber? I thought it would be neat to solve this problem using PubNub’s Project EON on the mobile platform (in this case, Android, because I had already used EON on iOS in a past...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
ChatOct 12, 2016

Cloud Computing: the Dream vs. Reality

Good News! We’ve launched an all new Chat Resource Center. We recommend checking out our new Chat Resource Center, which includes overviews, tutorials, and design patterns for building and deploying mobile and web chat. Take me to the Chat Resource Center → The dream of cloud computing is wonderful:...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
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ChatOct 5, 2016

7 Tutorials for Building a Complete Chat App with AngularJS

Last spring our superhero intern Martin (now a full time member of Team PubNub) created a comprehensive blog series on building a full featured chat app with Angular JS. Along the way he completely overhauled the PubNub Angular SDK and paved the way for Angular 2. Here it is, your complete guide to building...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
ChatSep 28, 2016

Easily Build an Android Chat App in One Afternoon

Good News! We’ve launched an all new Chat Resource Center. We recommend checking out our new Chat Resource Center, which includes overviews, tutorials, and design patterns for building and deploying mobile and web chat. Take me to the Chat Resource Center → Building chat applications is easier...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildSep 27, 2016

Build a Smart Home UI to Control Your Garage Door

Welcome back! In the previous article, we explored smart home automation via a garage door opener service using LiftMaster, PubNub, and Node.js. The context is the growing popularity of two main areas, the Smart Car and Smart Home. Integration of Smart Home door and access control seems like a natural...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildSep 26, 2016

Create a New Language in Less Than 200 Lines of Code

Have you ever wanted to design your own programming language? It seems like such fun, but if you’ve ever tried you probably got stuck right around the time you read “LLR Decent Parsers and Abstract Syntax Trees.” Traditionally designing your own language was hard because it requires a very specialized...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll