how can i create a chat app like telegram in Qt for mobiles

[Qjay]

Hello all , i want to make a chat app pretty much similar to telegram . How can i get started with it , can someone point some starting resources ?

Thank you !!

[timday]

There's several chat examples in Qt docs:

• http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebsockets-simplechat-example.html
• http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebchannel-chatserver-cpp-example.html
• http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtnetwork-network-chat-example.html

They're probably mainly about demonstrating Qt's network support for such things (looks like they're all-C++ apps; no QML).

Does the world really need yet another chat app though? :^)

[SGaist]

Hi,

Do you mean a client for the Telegram network ?

[Qjay]

@SGaist Yeah that can work too .

[Qjay]

@timday it's not for public . the chat ap is only for a small private group .

[SGaist]

How many user do you expect ?
What kind of hardware are you targetting ?

[Qjay]

@SGaist i am expecting minimum 500 and at max 5000 ( i have stretched this number ) users.

I am targetting both Android and IOS . but first priority is android !!

Thank you !!

[SGaist]

Then you will likely also be interested in KDE's Telepathy.

[Qjay]

@SGaist thanks for sharing it , but i am not sure how i can use it ? .

[SGaist]

This application already support a wide range of chat services and technologies. You can take some inspiration from it. However as @timday wrote, do you really need to write yet another chat application ?

Shouldn't you rather provide a server for your customer so they can connect to it with their usual clients.

[Qjay]

@SGaist i do agree that there might not be a need for another chat application . So what exactly i want to do is / they want is a their own client .

So yeah i guess providing a server approach also seems right to me . Just my own server for chat app . Can you list me some chat clients that i can look into . Like you said telegraphy is one of them but i can' use it just like that .

[SGaist]

Konversation is an IRC chat client
Kopete is an older multi-service chat client.

[Qjay]

Thanks everyone for insight . I have some idea now from where i should start .

[Mitesh Parmar]

Creating a Telegram-like chat app in Qt for mobile is definitely possible, but the main challenge is building the backend for real-time messaging, authentication, notifications, media sharing, and message synchronization. Qt can handle the mobile UI and client-side functionality, while a separate backend and database would typically manage users, chats, messages, and media.