Log-Messenger

An iOS instant messaging app (currently in progress) - written using Swift.

Motivation

I was motivated to start this project because I always wondered if it were possible for one person to create an entire instant-messaging app, I am here to test that challenge (with support of close friends as well!)

Getting Started

Pre-Requisites

Install the following components; they are required.

• Install Homebrew

• Install Carthage

You also need Xcode Tools, which are automatically installed when Xcode is installed.

Setting Up The Project

Download the repository from GitHub

git clone https://github.com/Colourhood/Log-Messenger.git

Install app dependencies using Carthage

carthage update --platform iOS We only want to fetch dependencies for the iOS Platform, otherwise this could take a while

AWS SDK Credentials - Required to run project

Note: These is very sensitive information that cannot and should not be shared due to security reasons, just like your SS#; do not share.

Get Keys You must request and submit permissions from the REPO Owner in order to obtain the appropriate credentials to connect to the AWS SDK. Contact andrei@colourhood.org for more information.

Setting up keys (if provided)

mkdir ~/.aws && cd ~/.aws && touch credentials.json && cat >> credentials.json [press enter; then paste the keys into the file; press enter; then press Control-D]

We will creating a diretory called .aws in the users root directory and storing the AWS keys within a file called credentials.json

Installing keys to the Xcode project

1. Open the file with extension of .xcodeproj
2. Head over to Build Phases and select Copy Bundle Resources
3. We need to reference the local credentials.json from the last step
4. You may notice there is one file already linked; remove that file reference (otherwise the project won't run appropriately - those key references are from the original owner)
5. And select the credentials.json file created within /.aws (You may have to do [Command-Shift-.] in order to reveal the hidden directories/files

Run App

Time to run the project

There are three ways to do this:

Method #1 - Select Product then Run

Method #2 - Press [Command-R]

Method #2 - Within the Xcode IDE Select the 'play' button

Installing New Dependencies (Carthage)

If you are new to Carthage I recommend reading their documentation to installing new dependencies!

Carthage Documentation

Swiftlint Rules

disabled_rules

• trailing_semicolon
• control_statement

excluded

• Carthage Otherwise we would get hundrends of warnings from dependencies who do not adhere to Swiftlint's standard
• line_length: 200 Arbitrary decision

Recommendation

In Xcode, go to Preferences and under Text Editing within the sub-section while editing select the boxes next to it. This releases some of the stress of having to go through each file and take care of the white-spaces during code implementation.

License

Log-Messenger is released under the MIT License.