Realtime data has become essential in our swift lifestyle. Even a minute delay causes distress. Apps like Google Maps, Uber, Lyft, and numerous other apps are based on real-time data. The faster the data is received, the faster it can be processed. Whether your app will succeed or not depends upon its reliability, functionality, and its speed.
With the rising usage of realtime APIs & services, realtime APIs work great with serverless or microservice backends. These solutions easily allow you to stream data to multiple clients like cell phones, laptops, or other servers.
While Deciding which Backend to Use for Chat Applications consider Factors like:
- Flexibility
- Scalability
- Cost
- Performance
- Development effort
One such notable backend service is Layer. The layer provides developers with Application Program Interface (API), Software Development Kit (SDK) & User Interface (UI) toolkits to integrate real-time messaging into your products. To provide developers with tools that match rapid development & user experience, Layer can easily integrate messaging into their applications. It can handle servers, scaling, performance, and encryption as well.
The Services Which Layer Offers Are:
- Direct Messaging & Group conversations
- Multi-part messages with rich media content & application data
- Typical indicators
- Granular delivery & read receipts for each Conversation participant
- Supports mobile push notifications
- Flexible querying interface for searching data
- Blocking & suspension of users
- An elegant, high-level client programming environment
- The rapid development of consumer user experience
Apart from this, Layer also provides User interface (UI) components like Atlas to help build apps that work with Layer data. Today Layer has scaled millions of users for its scalability. Layer aces when it comes to filing upload, download, or message delivery. The numerous widgets in UI libraries of Layer help in simplifying the application development.
The Core Components Of Layer Include:
- Conversation Panel
- Send button
- Conversation list
- Notifier
- Identities list
- Presence
- File upload button & so on
Layer offers a real-time back end which can be accessed using their mobile SDKs. You have the freedom to design your messaging protocol while leaving on Layer to handle the infrastructure.
Developing an app with a Layer is easier. With a better understanding of how messaging works, Layer gives you more flexibility by allowing you to add any feature imaginable with nominal service charges based on data transfer rather than per-message basis.