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Layer Brings A Scalable Communications Platform To Any Mobile Or Web App

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Re: Layer Brings A Scalable Communications Platform To Any Mobile Or Web App

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Post by tomazstolfa »

vaughan wrote: post #19

I was recently working on an iOS app where I needed a 1-to-1 chat feature. I was surprised that there wasn't an established market leader in this space considering how many apps use such a feature. When I saw this post I immediately thought "yep, that is a gap I'd seen in the market". Some existing platforms included Scringo, Lobi SDK, QuickBlox. None seemed polished or customisable enough for my purposes. See more h…

Thanks, this is great feedback! Please get in touch with us, we'd love to chat more - hello@layer.com

Re: Layer Brings A Scalable Communications Platform To Any Mobile Or Web App

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Post by tomazstolfa »

cmelbye wrote: post #17

Their tagline is: "The open communications layer for the Internet". I'm curious, what's open about it?

The Layer UI kit will be open-source from day one. The SDK and protocol will be opened up soon after.

Like mentioned in our presentation today - we are on a mission to make communications better for everyone, and we firmly believe that open is a better option. A bit more about Layer: https://layer.com/introducing-layer

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Post by tadruj »

vaughan wrote: post #19

I was recently working on an iOS app where I needed a 1-to-1 chat feature. I was surprised that there wasn't an established market leader in this space considering how many apps use such a feature. When I saw this post I immediately thought "yep, that is a gap I'd seen in the market". Some existing platforms included Scringo, Lobi SDK, QuickBlox. None seemed polished or customisable enough for my purposes. See more h…

As I understand Layer also has offline/sync functionality, contacts & some UI goodies to glue all of these together.

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Post by rokgregoric »

vaughan wrote: post #19

I was recently working on an iOS app where I needed a 1-to-1 chat feature. I was surprised that there wasn't an established market leader in this space considering how many apps use such a feature. When I saw this post I immediately thought "yep, that is a gap I'd seen in the market". Some existing platforms included Scringo, Lobi SDK, QuickBlox. None seemed polished or customisable enough for my purposes. See more h…

Everything you saw on the presentation will be available with very few lines of code. By using Layer SDK you will get messages sync cross devices, delivery notifications, delivery dismissal when a message has been opened (if using multiple devices), offline messaging thats syncs when you come back online. All you'll have to do is to define a search query for your UITableViewController and style your UITableViewCell and you are done, we'll take care of everything else.

Re: Layer Brings A Scalable Communications Platform To Any Mobile Or Web App

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Post by maxwin »

rpalmeri wrote: post #10
salimmadjd wrote: post #9

Ron Palmeri has a knack for picking great teams and ideas. The concept of an infrastructure that can later become the standard of communication is great with huge potentials. Internet was built to be the standard of communication and I feel Layer takes that spirit a level higher to application infrastructure. I wasn't able to figure out if there is a strong security play, especially in the current zeitgeist. They tou…

thanks! security and privacy are huge aspects of what Layer is doing. given the team's background we will invest heavily to ensure that the core infrastructure and client side SDK are locked down. my guess is we'll have more people on that aspect alone than most developers can afford to deploy on the full stack.

is voice(instead of text) message available fro the current API?
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