It is challenging to compare the largest cloud providers on the market since all of them offer great services for a reasonable cost. We have checked the key characteristics of Microsoft Azure and Alibaba that are usually taken into account when choosing a cloud provider and laid them down for your consideration.

The QuickBlox team sends the warmest regards and congratulations with the upcoming holidays. We hope that this year was productive and reach for achievements. In this post, we would like to speak about QuickBlox improvements in 2019 and share our plans for 2020.

Healthcare practices continue to develop with technological advances that integrate applications and patient information management into telemedicine systems. Telemedicine creates unique benefits for patients and medical providers. When health care providers employ telemedicine, they can reduce costs while increasing access to health care. QuickBlox wants to increase access to quality healthcare and maintains an easy telemedicine solution for healthcare professionals.

Want to create a fully-featured chat app? You can! Learn the basics of building a chat app with this simple React Native developer tutorial. How to create a React Native application for online chat and messaging on your own, regardless of programming experience. QuickBlox React Native SDK reduces the time on setting up and managing your infrastructure so you can focus on building your app.

Developers want to increase their productivity and develop high-performing apps faster. Startups and business owners want to decrease development costs. That is why cross-platform development becomes top-notch for building mobile apps. One of the most perspective toolkits is Flutter.

WebRTC is developed by Google and provides an open-source toolkit for real-time multimedia communication via different clients. You can easily integrate it into web browsers, applications, and mobile devices. It supports voice and video calls, file sharing without the need for extra software or plug-ins.

Real-time communication is becoming more important in businesses to satisfy customer expectations and needs. A video chat application can be a sustainable service or part of your own infrastructure specific to your business needs. The perfect video chat app is able to offer solutions for enterprise-level communication, customer-focused business communication, e-commerce platforms, and personal messaging.

QuickBlox React Native SDK provides all the necessary tools for building a fully-functional messaging application. Our SDK allows integrating file sharing, as well as voice and video calling in your existing app. Thanks to React Native, the app is cross-platform which means that it can be run on both Android and iOS platforms.

Push Notifications are friendly reminders to users about the events and are one of the easiest ways to engage people. They are easy to manage – as long as you use the application and agree to receive the notifications, you will get them. There is no need to update or relaunch the application, or share your personal information – all you need is an app on your phone.

XMPP is an open XML-based protocol for real-time data exchange between the clients. It was specifically designed for instant messaging services, and currently, it is the number-one chat protocol in the market. It has also become the primary choice for QuickBlox communication solutions.