Creating a fast and beautiful chat with Flutter
Blog post from Stream
The article explores the use of Stream, a chat service that facilitates the rapid development of interactive messaging applications, particularly through its support of Flutter and the provision of pre-built widgets. The author shares their experience of creating a fully functional chat app within hours using Stream's tools, which include predefined widgets for standard chat components like channel items, message threads, and message input. The article emphasizes the importance of customizing these widgets to meet specific app design requirements and provides guidance on setting up chat clients, creating custom widgets, and configuring themes using StreamChatThemeData. It also details how to manage channels, display messages, and implement custom chat bubbles and message inputs, showcasing the ease of integrating chat functionalities into Flutter applications. The author highlights Stream's free offering for small companies, making it an appealing option for developers looking to incorporate chat features into their apps.