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How-to Upgrade your Message-Level Encryption to 256-bit Key Strength

At PubNub, we are committed to providing customers with the highest level of security for their data, this how-to will explain how to upgrade to the new 256-bit encryption method introduced to our SDKs starting in October 2023.
Manage Channel Membership with the PubNub Chat SDK
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How to Manage User Channel Membership with the PubNub Chat SDK

The PubNub Chat SDK exposes a set of APIs designed to make it easy to add powerful and flexible chat features to your app with minimum development. This guide walks you through managing user channel membership using the SDK
Add Reactions to Messages with the PubNub Chat SDK
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How to Add Reactions and Emoji to Messages with the PubNub Chat SDK

The PubNub Chat SDK exposes a set of APIs designed to make it easy to add powerful and flexible chat features to your app with minimum development. This guide walks you through adding reactions (emoji) to messages using the SDK
Create Threads and Quote Messages with the PubNub Chat SDK
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How to Create Threads and Quote Messages with the PubNub Chat SDK

The PubNub Chat SDK exposes a set of APIs designed to make it easy to add powerful and flexible chat features to your app with minimum development. This guide walks you through creating threads and quoting messages using the SDK
Mention Users and Channels with the PubNub Chat SDK
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How to Mention Users and Channels with the PubNub Chat SDK

The PubNub Chat SDK exposes a set of APIs designed to make it easy to add powerful and flexible chat features to your app with minimum development. This guide walks you through mentioning (tagging) users and channels using the SDK
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How to Summarize Missed Chat Messages with ChatGPT

This how-to focuses on an innovative method to optimize user interaction within your chat applications, employing OpenAI's sophisticated language model, ChatGPT, to summarize chat messages.
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Test Cases for Chat Application

As software becomes more easily accessible than ever before, you need to ensure your chat application can successfully handle and support typical user behavior, as well as unintentional, odd, or even malicious behavior that can cause issues for your app.
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Building Chat: Building with SDKs versus Components

Follow this how-to to understand the differences around building chat application with Chat Components or SDKs
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Building Chat: Dealing with timestamps

Follow this how-to to understand how to deal with and format timestamps for PubNub Chat applications.