Getting Started with Tencent Cloud Chat: A Step-by-Step Walkthrough

What is Tencent Cloud Chat API?

The rise of remote communication makes Chat feature essential for almost all applications or websites. Chat API as a potential solution for developers, which is a set of tools and protocols that enable chat functionality integration into websites, apps and other digital platforms. By using Chat API, developers can provide with a seamless and efficient chat experience to communicate among users.

Tencent Cloud Chat provides Chat API for apps and websites, and integrates diverse chat capabilities such as one-to-one chat, group chat, chat room, and system notification into its SDKs and UIKit components to build engagement and develop your business quickly. We are trusted by 100,000+ customers worldwide, supporting 1 billion+ monthly active users, and over 550 billion daily peak messages. Our products can be applied to social, live, metaverse, gaming, education and on-demand service which can basically cover all your needs.

Tencent Cloud Chat brings in-app chat to the next level

Tencent Cloud Chat is a useful tool for building a complete in-app chat platform due to its easy integration, global access and support for multiple platforms：

Easy and Quick Integration

You can run our demo in just ten minutes. By implementing the UI features based on TUIKit and calling the corresponding APIs of the chat SDK, you can build your own chat application in just a day.

Independent IDC and global access

With independent data storage nodes in US, Singapore, Germany, India and South Korea & 2800+ global access points and cache nodes in all continents, messages can be delivered globally in 200ms on average.

Full platforms supported

Chat API platform covers a comprehensive range, including iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Web, Unity, Flutter, and Electron. Tencent Cloud Chat offers various message types to improve the chat experience, including conversations that make it easier for users to receive or start chats, and announcements for timely notifications that can drive higher conversion rates.

How to build your first app with Tencent Cloud Chat