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CAN VIDEO CONFERENCING APP BE MADE USING QUICKBLOX’S API?
Yes it can.
Web http://quickblox.com/developers/Sample-webrtc-web
[http://quickblox.com/developers/Sample-webrtc-web]
iOS http://quickblox.com/developers/Sample-webrtc-ios
[http://quick...
ARE CHAT MESSAGES STORED?
There is a possibility to manage chat history. With QuickBlox You can
store, view and retrieve chat history without any additional API
calls.
More details you can check here
https://quickblox.com/developers/Chat/1:1_Chat_histor...
CAN I CREATE ONE GENERIC USER FOR ALL CHAT SESSIONS?
Yes, you can. You need to register QuickBlox account
http://quickblox.com/signup/, log into your admin panel and add your
application. Then get tokens and keys to access your application
(check detail...
CAN I DELETE QUICKBLOX USER ACCOUNT WITHIN THE APPLICATION?
You can.
The easiest way is to log in to your QB account, choose the app in
question, go to "Users" menu and check off the boxes against the users
you want to delete, and click on "Remove sel...
CANNOT ACCESS API.QUICKBLOX.COM/SESSION.XML
In order to access this API you need to use POST request, not GET one.
More information you can check here
http://quickblox.com/developers/Authentication_and_Authorization#Requests_and_Responses
I WANT MY APP TO SUPPORT BOTH CHAT AND POSTWALL FEATURES. IS THERE A
WAY TO INTEGRATE THE CHAT WITH MY OWN POSTWALL? OR IS IT AVAILABLE IN
THE SDK ALREADY?
Yes you can. Please check iOS and Android chat code samples:
iOS: http://quickblox.com/develope...
HOW DO I ADD CHAT FEATURE TO MY ALREADY ESTABLISHED MOBILE APP?
Please look at the chat codes sample that might be helpful for you:
iOS - http://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-chat_users-ios
[http://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-chat_us...
I HAVE USED VIDEO CHAT APP USING QB SAMPLE CREDENTIALS. I HAVE 1 VIDEO
CHAT APP INSTALLED ON BOTH OF MY IOS DEVICES.
WHEN BOTH DEVICES ARE
ON THE SAME NETWORK THE VIDEO QUALITY IS MUCH BETTER BUT WHEN BOTH
DEVICES ARE ON DIFFERENT WIFI NETWORKS THE QUALI...
WHY IS MY CHAT MODULE IN THE LIST OF USERS NOT LOADING?
You need to look through sample codes and find [QBUsers
userWithDelegate:..] query. And look into delegate method, what this
query returns and print.
I AM MAKING MY APP ON JUST IOS USING THE HELP OF QUICKBLOX CHAT SAMPLE
BUT I AM FACING ISSUES WITH CONNECTIVITY. I ALSO RAN A CHAT SAMPLE
FROM QUICKBLOX IT STILL GIVES ME THE SAME RESPONSE. AUTOMATICALLY IT
BECOMES CORRECTED.
You can use separate rooms ...
DELETE AND PUT COMMAND DO NOT WORK, WHY?
In order to use QuickBlox API you need to create session. After this
you will have READ access to QuickBlox environment.
In order to CREATE/UPDATE/DELETE records you must be logged in and act
on user's behalf. ...
FACEBOOK USER CANNOT LOG INTO THE CHAT, WHY?
There are two ways of users authentication: standard login and
password and Facebook/Twitter authentication. Depending on this you
need to use appropriate password for XMPP connection: either the same
passwor...
HOW DO I CHANGE THE VIDEO CHAT FRAME QUALITY ON IOS?
You can change the video quality by setting the video chat frame
quality preset in the "Video Chat Configuration":
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20111654/quickblox-video-chat-quality
[http://stac...
WHAT IS THE LIMIT WITH THE GROUP CHAT APPLICATION FOR DEVELOPERS? AND
HOW MANY USERS CAN JOIN IN THE GROUP CHAT?
There are no limits to group chats - all things are unlimited for
developers.
How can I get extended room information?
QuickBlox Chat server supports only short room info at the moment.
We suggest using CustomObjects record to wrap Chat room and store any
additional room information you need.
HOW CAN I INCREMENT THE BADGE COUNTER EACH TIME A PUSH NOTIFICATION IS
RECEIVED (IOS/REST API)?
iOS device does not increment the badge counter automatically each
time a new push message is received. To manage badge counter you need
to send push notific...
HOW DO I KNOW WHETHER THE MESSAGE IS DELIVERED/READ (IOS)?
To find out whether the message has been delivered you can use the
following solution.
When message is received, you automatically need to send message with
parameters (custom parameters: put m...
HOW RECEIVE VIDEO CALLS FROM ANYWHERE IN THE APP?
Please refer to http://quickblox.com/developers/Sample-webrtc-ios
HOW TO ADD AN AVATAR AND EXTRA DETAILS TO CHAT USER?
Each user has a blob_id field
http://quickblox.com/developers/Users#Response_3
Basically this is a link to file in Content Module. You can upload the
file into the Content Module and connect it with u...
HOW TO CREATE MULTIPLE RELATED RECORDS WITH QUICKBLOX IOS SDK?
In order to create relation between custom tables you can use parentID
field. To understand how it works let's look through the following
example:
let's say you have two entities - Movies ...
HOW TO CREATE NEW RECORD IN QUIKCBLOX CUSTOM TABLE?
Android.
In order to create record you need to be logged in
http://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-users-android#Sign_In_.26_Social_authorization
Next, the following can be used:
HashMap
HOW TO CREATE ONE TO ONE CHAT WITH WEB SDK?
As a Chat service QuickBlox uses XMPP-server. WebSDK doesn't have a
wrapper for XMPP API, so you will need to include additional XMPP JS
library.
For our examples, we used Strophe.js (http://strophe.im/strophe...
HOW TO CREATE USER LOGIN AND PASSWORD?
iOS:
https://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-users-ios#Signing_Up
[https://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-users-ios#Signing_Up]
Android:
https://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-users-android#Si...
HOW TO DELETE ALL CUSTOM OBJECTS FOR A SPECIFIC CLASS?
Records can be deleted only by their owner.
Android:
https://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-customObjects-android#Delete_multiple_records
[https://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-cust...
HOW TO DISABLE QUICKBLOX LOGS?
In order to disable QuickBlox logs use the following:
[QBSettings setLogLevel:QBLogLevelNothing];
HOW TO FIND OUT WHETHER QUICKBLOX USER IS ONLINE?
There are two ways to find out whether QuickBlox user is online:
1. Using iOS SDK. Please check the guide here
http://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-users-ios#Online.5COffline_status
[http://qui...
HOW TO GENERATE QB SESSION TOKEN?
To generate the session token you need to create the session first.
Details you can find here
http://quickblox.com/developers/Authentication_and_Authorization#API_Session_Creation.
HOW TO GET A LIST OF ROOMS WHERE THE USER IS LOGGED IN?
To get the list of rooms where the user is logged in, not the complete
rooms list, you can make a wrapper in Custom Objects: for each user
add/delete/store custom objects (in your case these are ro...
HOW TO GET SENDER DATA WHEN MESSAGE IS RECEIVED?
On how to send custom parameters in QBChatMessage please refer to
http://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-chat_users-ios#Use_custom_parameters_in_a_message
[http://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSam...
HOW TO IMPORT THE PROJECT INTO ANDROID IDE - ECLIPSE?
In order to import the project into Eclipse please do the following:
1. Import the project (sample-chat and pull-to-refresh, which is
located in libraries);
2. Import appcompat project (it is locat...
HOW TO KEEP THE APP ALIVE IN BACKGROUND?
QBChat instance has 90 seconds timeout. After a timeout the socket is
closing. You need to keep up the connection by sending the
(BOOL)sendPresence message to QBChat instance object. This will
support the chat wo...
HOW TO LIST USERS OF PARTICULAR APPLICATIONS CREATED UNDER ONE QB
ACCOUNT?
If you have several applications created under the same QB account and
you wish to list users belonging to a particular application (not all
users under your account), you can us...
HOW TO MAKE PAGED REQUEST FOR CUSTOM OBJECTS?
In order to implement paged request for Custom Objects you can use
limit & skip parameters:
iOS.
How to use Custom Objects
quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-customObjects-ios
How to obtain all "Parents" associated with "Childs" provided that
every "Child" instance has a given "myKey"?
In order to give all Children for particular Parent use the following:
https://api.quickblox.com/data/Child?_parent_id=
HOW TO RETRIEVE APPLICATION POPULAR TAGS (IOS)?
There is no direct option in iOS SDK to retrieve popular tags.
Though you can hardcore all your tags or obtain tags from user and
then retrieve users by selected tag using
http://quickblox.com/developers...
How to retrieve user by ID and set him as an opponent (iOS)?
For Chat you don't need full user body, you can send chat messages
directly to user ID.
More info you can find here
http://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-chat_users-ios#Create_new_1-1...
HOW TO SHARE AUDIO/VIDEO WITH SEVERAL IOS DEVICES?
QuickBlox has released Quickblox WebRTC iOS SDK
You are able to share your screen.
For more information please refer to
http://quickblox.com/developers/Sample-webrtc-ios#Screen_sharing
[http://quick...
HOW TO TAG CONTENT?
_iOS_
How to update user profile with information
http://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-users-ios#Update_your_own_profile
[http://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-users-ios#Update_your_own_profile]
I AM USING QBCHATMESSAGE. HOW CAN I GET THE SENDER'S PROFILE PHOTO AND
USER ID?
You can use message.senderID to get sender's user id.
In order to get an avatar do the following:
How to update user's avatar
http://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSampl...
I GET UNAUTHORIZED ERROR, WHY?
An "Unauthorized" error means that you have not created the user for
your application in admin panel OR your login/email or password are
wrong, or if the user exists - the session was created without user
credentials.
Pl...
I HAVE RECEIVED AUTH TOKEN AND SECRET USING TWITTER REVERSE AUTH BUT
WHEN I PASS IT TO QB IT SAYS BAD AUTHENTICATION DATA, WHY?
Make sure that you set API KEY, API SECRET and callback for your app
http://quickblox.com/developers/Social_Networks_Integrat...
I RECEIVE "QBCHAT/DIDDISCONNECT, ERROR: ERROR
DOMAIN=GCDASYNCSOCKETERRORDOMAIN CODE=7 "SOCKET CLOSED BY REMOTE PEER"
USERINFO=0X10E58040 {NSLOCALIZEDDESCRIPTION=SOCKET CLOSED BY REMOTE
PEER}", WHY?
There can be several reasons of why your application go...
I receive "Token is required" error, why?
The error means that you are trying to perform a query without
creating a session first.
Please refer:
https://quickblox.com/developers/Authentication_and_Authorization#API_Session_Creation
I WANT TO VERIFY AND STORE USERS INFO WITH HELP OF CUSTOM OBJECT TABLE
INSTEAD OF USERS MODULE, IS IT POSSIBLE?
Unfortunately you cannot refuse using QBUser. Both password and login
will be stored in it. Each custom object has User Id field, so you can
...
I WOULD LIKE TO RETRIEVE USERS PASSWORD, BUT I ALWAYS GET NULL VALUES.
It is unsafe to store the password in an open form, so it is OK that
you cannot retrieve it.
For security reasons only user can know his/her password.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO ACCESS DIRECT URL OF A PUBLIC IMAGE USING BLOB ID?
Yes it is possible. You can upload blob and make it public, e.g:
[QBContent TUploadFile:file fileName:@"Great Image"
contentType:@"image/png" isPublic:YES delegate:self]; // QuickBlox...
IS IT POSSIBLE TO ADD SERVER LOGIC (CUSTOM CODE) TO QUICKBLOX?
Currently it is not possible to add some custom code to QuickBlox
server.
The following workaround can be used though:
- write a simple script using e.g. python or ruby;
- upload this scri...
IS IT POSSIBLE TO ALLOW WRITE ACCESS TO MULTIPLE USERS ON QUICKBLOX
FRAMEWORK?
Yes, it is possible to allow write access to multiple users.
QuickBlox released iOS SDK 1.7 with Permissions API, please check more
details here
http://quickblox.com/develo...
IS IT POSSIBLE TO CHANGE USER_ID?
It is not possible to change the user_id as this is the ID of record's
creator.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO CHANGE USER’S PASSWORD AFTER LOGIN?
Yes, there is actually a possibility to change password after user has
logged in.
You can use the following _for iOS:_
QBUUser *user = [QBUUser user];
user.ID = 300;
user.oldPassword = @"fg...
IS IT POSSIBLE TO EXTRACT LOCATIONS USING IOS SDK?
It is not anymore.
Location module has been deprecated!
Please employ "Custom Objects" instead:
https://quickblox.com/developers/Custom_Objects
IS IT POSSIBLE TO JOIN TWO JSON OBJECTS INTO ONE QUERY?
Unfortunately QuickBlox does not provide "JSON" like operator in
Custom Objects Module at the moment. So you will need to do two
separate queries.
Although, instead of implementing JSON query we ...
IS IT POSSIBLE TO SEND IMAGES USING PUSH NOTIFICATIONS?
Yes, you can send images with help of push notifications.
This can be implemented by uploading files into the Content Module and
sending link to file in push notifications. User will be able to
d...
IS IT POSSIBLE TO STORE APPLICATION SESSION VIA REST?
Unfortunately it is not possible to store application session via
REST. If the application is closed the session will be lost and user
will need to log in again.
Currently you can only store login ...
IS IT POSSIBLE TO UPLOAD IMAGE TO CUSTOM OBJECT (IOS)?
Yes, it is possible since QuickBlox iOS SDK 1.8 version:
http://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-customObjects-ios#Files
IS THERE A METHOD IN QUICKBLOX IOS SDK FOR CHECKING/STORING A VALID
USER SESSION?
Assume you create a session with Facebook login:
QBASessionCreationRequest *extendedAuthRequest =
[QBASessionCreationRequest request];
extendedAuthRequest.socialProvider ...
IS THERE ANY ANALOG IN THE QUICKBLOX IOS SDK THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE
SENDING THE WHOLE ARRAY TO THE SERVER TO UPDATE ONE VALUE?
If you wish to update one value and do not want to send the whole
array to the server you can use the following solution:
QBCO...
IS THERE ANY WAY TO RETRIEVE ALL BLOBS UPLOADED BY OPPONENT?
There is no basic way to retrieve all blobs of the opponent as all
files are kind of private.
As a workaround you can use Custom Objects API
http://quickblox.com/developers/Custom_Objects.
...
IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A USER TO REGISTER AND LOGIN TO QUICKBLOX JUST
USING THEIR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT?
We have a number of implementations where users log in with their
Facebook account; the QuickBlox account is created separately.
Check for example our Chat...
MESSAGES ARE NOT DELIVERED ONCE ONE OF USERS GOES OFFLINE.
If you use 1 to 1 chat you need to logout from Chat when application
goes to background and login again when you go foreground. In this
case messages will be delivered without any issues.
In c...
HOW MUCH STORAGE/TRAFFIC WILL BE USED, IF I STARTED A VIDEO CALL TO A
PERSON USING IPHONE FOR 1 HOUR?
When you are doing a Peer to Peer video call to a person, the only
traffic that will be used on the server-side is for logging start and
end time on th...
HOW CAN I SWITCH THE CAMERA?
The camera can be switched during a video call. To implement this
option use:
cameraView.switchCamera();
For example,locate "Switch" button over cameraView in xml file:
I WANT TO SHOW A DELIVERY REPORT TO A USER (EITHER YOUR IM HAS BEEN
SEEN BY YOUR FRIEND TO WHOM YOU CHAT OR NOT). HOW CAN I GET STANZA
MESSAGE USING CHAT INSTANCE?
You can send messages with text 'delivered' or something similar as a
response automatica...
USING OF FACEBOOK-IOS-SDK AND QUICKBLOX SDK CAUSES MAC-O-LINKER ERROR.
You can take a look at this project src
https://github.com/QuickBlox/ChattAR-ios - that includes Facebook API,
Location, Chat and Augmented Reality view features.
It uses QuickBlox...
WHAT ARE THE SERVER SIDE REQUIREMENTS FOR INSTALLATION QUICKBLOX?
QuickBlox can be installed literally on any hardware starting from the
equivalent of AWS Small (1 GHz CPU, 1.7 Gb RAM, 160 GB storage, any
Linux-based OS) but it depends on capacity you w...
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ACCOUNT USER, API USERS AND API
APPLICATION?
Account user is your admin panel account, the one you sign up with to
QuickBlox as a developer.
API Users are your end users, who use your mobile application, you
createm with...
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CUSTOM OBJECT AND CONTENT MODULES?
There are several features that characterize each storage.
_Content features:_
- the maximum size of the uploaded file is 100Mb
- allows to use file public url
_Custom Objects features...
Why I get "Forbidden. Need user." error?
The error shows up usually in two cases.
Either the user does not exist in the system or the sessino was
created without user credentials.
Please visit:
https://quickblox.com/developers/Authentication_and_Aut...
WITH QB CHAT IS IT POSSIBLE TO GET MESSAGES FROM NOT FACEBOOK FRIENDS?
For communiction between non-friends you can use QuickBlox Chat as
addition.
This feature is available in new ChattAR
https://github.com/QuickBlox/ChattAR-ios/tree/2.0
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