Android QuickBlox - User must have a list of contacts

Question

I'm new to quickblox, I have checked some official tutorials, and I've been able to create and connect to my application.

Now the problem I'm having is, that in my quickblox account, I only have the option to make "rooms", something similar to irc I think?, but that is not my idea.

I need each user to have his own list of contacts, similar to Facebook chat/ Whatsapp / telegram etc.

So I really don't figure out how to do this, since in all examples I have read they connect to a room.

How should I implement this?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can do it with CustomObjects module for example.

Let's start with Android CustomObjects example http://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-customObjects-android

1) Create class with name FriendsList with one field - friendsIDs (array of int) - this guide shows how to create class http://quickblox.com/developers/SimpleSample-customObjects-android#Add_Custom_Data_structure_to_your_application

2) When UserA adds UserB to friends - put UserB id to friendsIDs field.

QBCustomObject co = new QBCustomObject();
co.setClassName("FriendsList");
HashMap<String, Object> fields = new HashMap<String, Object>();
fields.put("push[friendsIDs][]", "788"); // 788 id UserB id
co.setFields(fields);
co.setCustomObjectId("502f7c4036c9ae2163000002");

QBCustomObjects.updateObject(co, new QBCallbackImpl() {
    @Override
    public void onComplete(Result result) {
        if (result.isSuccess()) {
            QBCustomObjectResult updateResult = (QBCustomObjectResult) result;
            QBCustomObject qbCustomObject = updateResult.getCustomObject();
            Log.d("Updated friends list: ",qbCustomObject.toString());
        } else {
            Log.e("Errors",result.getErrors().toString());
        }
    }
});

3) To request friends list:

QBCustomObjectRequestBuilder requestBuilder = new QBCustomObjectRequestBuilder();
requestBuilder.eq("user_id", "222"); // 222 is your user id

QBCustomObjects.getObjects("Movie", requestBuilder, new QBCallbackImpl() {
    @Override
    public void onComplete(Result result) {
        if (result.isSuccess()) {
             QBCustomObjectLimitedResult coresult = (QBCustomObjectLimitedResult) result;
             ArrayList<QBCustomObject> co = coresult.getCustomObjects();
             Log.d("friends list: ", co.toString());
         } else {
             Log.e("Errors",result.getErrors().toString());
         }
     }
});