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Database Structure

For current app, we using NoSQL Realtime Database, that actually store all data similar to how json file is look like. There is no direct way to make relations between records so keeping ID makes easy to get the data.

/posts - collection of stories that contains all information about story
    <post-id>
        image:string
        time:date
        user:<story-id>
/comments
    <post-id>
        <comment-id>
            message:string
            profile_id:<story-id>
            profile_image:string
            profile_name:string
            time:date
/likes
    <post-id>
        <user-id>
            liked:boolean
/recents
    <post-id>:string
/uploads
    <post-id>:string
/activity
    <user-id>
        <post-id>:boolean
/users
    <user-id>
        name:string
        photo:string
        tokens
            <device-id>:<token>
        followers
            <user-id>:boolean
        following
            <user-id>:boolean
/chats/
    <user-id> - as onwer of chat
        <chat-id>
            contact: <user-id> - as participant of chat 
            name:string - name of the chat
            profile:string - photo of the chat
            unread:int - number of unreaded messages
/messages/
    <chat-id>
        <message-id>
                message:string
                date:datetime
                user_id:<user-id> - owner of that message
/notifications
    <user-id>
        <notification-id>
            date:date
            message:string
            photo:string
            story:<story-id>
            user:<user-id>

Setup Push Notification

With current version you can send push notification to some segment of users using Firebase Push Notification section.

To setup push notification you need to register your BundleID and generate certificates. Please follow this instruction to generate and upload the Certificates to Firebase here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/ios/certs (for Android certificates are not required)

After registration you can send push notification to your users with Compose panel