Using iOS Notifications, Cryptography and iCloud to build your own Chat App X

Mark Lucking
6 min readFeb 27, 2020

I should start this article with a disclaimer, it based on iOS 13, Swift 5 and Xcode 11.x. If you reading this and those numbers look dated, be forewarned.

I should also warn you that notifications and iCloud code, involve Apple’s infrastructure which means you will need an Apple Developers account to use them.

Obviously this is part X, you need to go back to the beginning for it to make any sense, indeed you need to look at the notifications series before do that else your…

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Mark Lucking

Coding for 35+ years, enjoying using and learning Swift/iOS development. Writer @ Better Programming, @The StartUp, @Mac O’Clock, Level Up Coding & More