Add Real-Time Features to your Mobile App
summary
Practical checklist for adding realtime: use identity and a mediating cloud to avoid device-to-device chaos, expect background limits on Android so FCM is not guaranteed delivery, treat ephemeral, time‑sensitive and persistent data differently and test bandwidth and cost at scale, consider pubnub or MQTT based publish/subscribe rather than shoehorning everything into Firebase Realtime DB, handle cross‑region compliance and on‑premise proxies, and note a hospital use case where MQTT failed in background so push + in‑app realtime pairing proves necessary.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Real-time features intro
- 1:07What counts as real-time
- 7:30Architecting real-time comms
- 13:24Mobile challenges for real-time
- 18:42Push vs real-time features
- 21:53Building real-time infra
- 25:00IaaS for real-time
- 28:30Q&A
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