Introduction 👋
What is Ekko?
Ekko is a real-time chat and messaging platform for websites and mobile apps. We provide you a hosted infrastructure with various tools to easily integrate messaging into your mobile and web apps. This documentation references all you needs to know to use Ekko.
How does it work?
You can start using Ekko by subscribing to its dashboard and install a simple plugin/sdk to your website, we call this the widget.
How does it look like?
You can setup the following integration in less than 10 minutes, to do so, please follow first basic application. With this setup, you can already allow your users to discuss on different public channels, as well as letting them discuss 1 to 1.
What else can Ekko do?
Ekko has a solution for many messaging use cases.
You can use the SDK to customize the widget integration and open the chat in different scenarios.
For a full integration with custom settings you can hide the widget and use the open method to open the chat the way you want.
We invite you to see our live demos:
Ready to create your first application ?
Now that you know what users, channels and messages are, you are ready to create your first basic application!