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Social App - advice on tools to use

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  • 30-04-2015 10:25pm
    #1
    katnis
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭


    Hi

    I'm building a social app where people can send messages (on a wall rather than direct through sms), upload and share photos and make voice calls & video calls. Am planning to code it in html5, css3 and javascript which will be wrapped up in PhoneGap. I want to use existing tools to incorporate these features into the app, no need to reinvent them!

    Can anyone recommend good tools, APIs or useful links for integrating these features into an app? I was thinking about including Skype for video calls but I want the video calls to start straight away in my app without users having to log into skype's service as well. I'm also conscious there may be a cost factor with these tools as well.

    On another note does anyone know if it's easy to implement multi-factor authentication?

    I'd appreciate any thoughts and advice!

    Thanks


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    #2
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    It looks like you've overlooked the other 70% of your project which would constitute the back-end services for your social app.

    You can use other services for Video but if you're using a 3rd party service, expect to pay for it. I recall something about Twillio offering video calling recently.

    Multi-factor authentication isn't particular difficult for an experienced developer although it does take careful planning/implementation/testing. Without knowing your level of experience it's impossible to say whether you'd find it difficult.


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