Leacme Chatra is a cross-platform desktop application able to run on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. It is build using Microsoft .NET platform and Avalonia UI framework.
This application features the ability to leverage the unique IPV6 addresses of devices to set up a serverless direct chat session between two devices running this app and exchange messages.
The desktop application can be compiled into an executable with .NET 3.1 by navigating to Leacme.App.Chatra folder and running:
dotnet publish --configuration Release -p:CopyOutputSymbolsToPublishDirectory=false -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:LeacmeOutputType=winexe --runtime win-x64
Note: win-x64 can be replaced with other runtimes such as linux-x64, or osx-x64, for more runtimes see RID Catalog
On start - the application will query to see if your device has an IPV6 address, and can only be used if you have one. Once your IPV6 device address had been aquired, you can connect to other devices running Leacme Chatra via their IPV6 addresses and send and receive messages directly without the need for a central server.
The applicatin library can also be build and used separately by navigating to Leacme.Lib.Chatra folder and running dotnet build. This will create a .dll library that can be copied into the directory where your .csproj is located. Be sure as well to add the following line to your .csproj file to point to the location of the library:
<ItemGroup><Reference Include="Leacme.Lib.Chatra.dll"><HintPath>Leacme.Lib.Chatra.dll</HintPath></Reference></ItemGroup>
It can then be added and used within your project with var library = new Leacme.Lib.Chatra.Library();
The author can be contacted via the contact form on their website http://leac.me
View LICENSE.md for more information