Introduction: Whats App Chat Clone - MIT App Inventor

By YoLabs

This android app allow you to do password protected chat with your friends. As this app is created by you and distributed among your friend their is zero chance that someone can hack the app. Also with a feature like snap chat (it never store more than siz msg and deletes them automatically.


It will not take more than 30 min to create this app if you are having basic knowledge of coding and MIT app inventor.

Supplies

  1. MIT app Inventor Account -google Account will work
  2. An Android Phone with MIT ai2 companion app
  3. FirseBase Account - google account will work
  4. Canva Account - to create your personalised Logo



GIT-Hub repository

Step 1: Name and Logo of Your App

Create the name and logo of your android chat app. for this step mainly you need canva and a bit of creativity


Time - 5 min

Difficulty - Easy

Step 2: Create Login Screen

Time - 10 min

Difficulty - Moderate


Create the password protected login page which only allow you to enter if you have correct password and entered a name for chat.


Also it has some cool french accent TEXT to speech in case you attempt a security breach

Step 3: FireBase DB and Connection With MIT App

Time - 5 min

Difficulty - Easy


Create your first firebase DB account and connect it to MIT app inventor. You can use the very similar process to create any multiplayer game or anything where you need high speed realtime database across web or mobile app


Also it has some cool french accent TEXT to speech in case you attempt a security breach

Step 4: Create Chat Box and Msg List

Time - 15 min

Difficulty - Moderate


Start storing and Auto - deleting your Chat app. please note this can be joined by as many of your friends as you want but still they need a password to be part of chat. Also no one can see or retrieve the msg once they are deleted.

In this case the max message anytime could be 6 but you can increase or decrease the limit just by typing a number.



Step 5: Future Scope

You can easily add voice msg as well as ability to send pictures but i have kept it simple at the moment. please write in the comment if you want me to add these features it will not take more than five minutes for each to add.