We would like to warn our Starter/Advanced/Pro account owners that we are planning maintenance on May, 22, 11:00-11:30 UTC+3. Update will affect only internal configuration, no changes required on your side.

Thank you for your patience and understanding!

We are happy to announce release of Quickblox IOS framework v2.17 and components. A lot of changes and fixes come with this release, please refer to changelog:

Quickblox.framework 2.17

New:

• Added lastMessageID property for the QBChatDialog model.
• Added – [QBChat connectWithUserID:password:completion:] and – [QBChat connectWithUserID:password:resource:completion:] methods for connecting to the chat.

Deprecated:

• [QBChat connectWithUser:completion:] and -[QBChat connectWithUser:resource:completion:] – methods for connecting to the chat with QBUUser.

Removed:

• Deprecated login method using Twitter Digits : +[QBRequest logInWithTwitterDigitsAuthHeaders:successBlock:errorBlock].
• Deprecated property twitterDigitsID of the  QBUUser model and QBUpdateUserParameters class.
• Removed unused -chatDidNotSetActivePrivacyListWithName: method of the QBChatDelegateprotocol.
• Removed unused methods + [QBMSubscription notificationChannelFromString:] and + [QBMSubscription notificationChannelToString:].
• BBPS (Blackberry pushes).
• Deprecated property isTokenValid of the QBSession class.
• Deprecated property data of the  QBChatAttachment model.
• Deprecated content module methods:  + [QBRequest blobsWithSuccessBlock:], + [QBRequest taggedBlobsWithSuccessBlock:] and + [QBRequest taggedBlobsForPage:successBlock:errorBlock:].

Fixed:

• GitHub issue: The method of QBRequest  +updateCurrentUser:sucessBlock:errorBlock returns nil for the field tags of the updated user. Thanks to RubenBenBen.

QMServices v 0.6.2

New

• Added support for  use_frameworks! for development podspec.
• Implemented isEmpty method of QMMemoryStorage protocol for all dependencies.

Removed:

• Removed deprecated login method through Twitter Digits

Fixed:

• GitHub issue: _CDAttachment duplicated class, which conflicts with system library. Thanks to Serproger.
• GitHub issue: – [QMAttachmentStoreService method cachedImageForAttachment:] always returns nil. Thanks to haarj.
• Warnings: Block implicitly retains ‘self'; explicitly mention ‘self’ to indicate this is intended behavior [-Wimplicit-retain-self].
• Renamed – [QMChatCache deleteMessageWithDialogID:] with – [QMChatCache deleteMessagesWithDialogID:].

QMChatViewController 0.6.6

• Fixed all warnings
• Removed deprecated methods of the QMInputToolbarDelegate

We are pleased to announce that we’ve released iOS Swift WebRTC sample.

This sample will help you quickly integrate video calls into your project. It is easy to use, with full stack of basic functionality (video calls, screen sharing etc.) written in Swift 4. 

You can find the code and brief description on our GitHub page.

We would like to let our Starter/Advanced/Pro plans account’s owners know that server has been updated to a new version. In this release outdated functionality was removed and numerous bug fixes were implemented.

Please find the changelog:

API and Dashboard changelog

1. API
   • New
     • Removed Blackberry push notifications
     • User: removed ‘owner_id’, ‘twitter_digits_id’ fields from API output
     • ChatDialog: added ‘last_message_id’ field
   • Fixed
     • Added DB index to search users by ‘twitter_id’ field
     • Speed up API request for retrieve users by ids
     • Optimized user selection query in API for login via Custom Identity Provider.
     • Optimized DB query in create new push subscription API
2. Dashboard
   • New
     • Removed Blackberry push notifications
     • APNS push certificates: allow to upload only universal or non universal cert
   • Fixed
     • Chat: history export not working sometimes
     • Dictionary upload for TnS sometimes not working
3. Other
   • New
     • ChatAlerts: include ‘message_id’ param into push payload if %body% tag is in push template
   • Fixed
     • Recurring error in ‘period_date’ push notifications.

Real-time Chat API changelog

• New
  • ChatDialog: added last_message_id field
• Fixed
  • Chat alerts. Offline user gets a few push-notifications about one message in chat if opponent lost internet connection during message sending

You can find changelog for previous versions here.

We are happy to announce that Q-municate v.2.7 has been released!

There are pretty much changes come with new version.

Please refer to changelog:

• updated Android Plugin for Gradle 3.1.1
• added support for cross platform calls with iOS
• fixed call screen isn’t closed when user tries to end incoming call
• fixed when the user sets image avatar from the camera app either crash or image is not set as an avatar
• fixed App crash for user if he opened app without internet connection and turns on internet connection
• fixed restore session when was logged in via Firebase
• minor bugs fixes

Application could be downloaded from Google Play, source code is available on GitHub.