Project ReportonOnline Messaging ApplicationSubmitted to

LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITYin partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of degree of

Bachelor in Computer ApplicationsSubmitted By:Supervised By:Navdeep Singh (11210553)

Mr. Raj SinghBanti Ram(________) Assistant ProfessorAshish Yadav(________)

Isaac Thapar(________) LOVELY FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCESLOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITYPUNJAB

2014-2015

Organizational OverviewThis project has been primarily developed by the 4 group members :- Navdeep Singh, Banti Ram, Ashish Yadav and Isaaz Thapar. The overall time period taken for the completion is 4 months and in that a reliable and compatible online Messaging app has been developed.Basically the app consists of a model very similar to whatsapp but different in many respects and with additional functionality that is very useful . This online messaging app allows

Profile of ProblemBasically there are many problems faced by various online messenger apps some of them are:-

1) Availability of Social Add-ons:- Many applications such as Whatsapp, and viber lack some key components of social add-ons that affect the viability of their usability for example:- Moments Feed, Look Around, Shake, Drift Bottle are provided by wechat and due to this reason only , they enhance the communication mechanism2) Backup Facility:- Although many online messengers successfully provide backup facility without any hassles , having said that , Online messenger apps particularly viber only manages to provide text backup where it will compile each conversation you have into separate .CSV files. It will then zip all these conversations and attach it onto an email which you can send out (to yourself).only text is backed up, all your audio and video clips arent. This is good for storing your messages on your computer but doesnt allow you to restore it to a different device.3) Privacy and Security Concerns:-4) Voice and Sound Quality:- When it comes to the quality of sound medium, taking a look at wechat precisely, The video and voice chat it provides are not at the best quality and it feels that WeChat is made only for social and not for professional communication5) Boring Interface: Some application such as KIK messenger among others has a boring interface which is dull and at times too simple. The application its quite simple and that tends to be boring. It looks the same as iMessage or BBM and since we all like powerful applications with great features and graphics, this application might not be up to our standards.6) Payment for integrated features:-Most of awesome stickers that are presented by various messaging apps are not free and it will cost you money to buy it.Line messaging app for instance, doesnt support video messaging, which makes other application that have, most useful than this one.7) Buffering Issues: It has been realized that Viber of all the messaging apps has some issues related to buffering and reliability. For example It doesnt shine when you are not connected to a Wi-Fi or 3G internet connection, so when you are not on LTE or 3G, you might expect some buffering issues.8) Adding Contacts Manually: WeChat has another implementation block. What happens in this is Contacts have to be manually added unlike whats app and viber which have an inbuilt functionality that allows you to automatically add contacts without any hassles from the user side9) Bulky Applications: It has been increasingly found that several applications are Very Bulky (more than 25 MB), This simply means that users not having the added benefit of a high speed internet connection and are forced to survive on slow internet packages such as a 2G Connection , they would be at a loss.10) Time Period to log in and out:- Another significant barrier often noticed is that Skype has a long time to log in and out of the interface which is a major blow considering the fact that everyone in this day and age wants a faster response medium to go with their quick interactions in personal and professional life.11) Consumption of memory:- It has been found out that WhatsApp consumes very less memory, whereas file size of WeChatis twice of that of WhatsApp and has heavy on entry-level smartphones.12) Inter phone/ PC calling mechanism:- At present situation , only Viber has full desktop functionality that means you can video call from your phone to any PC who has viber on their computer 13) Chatting to people not having Whatsapp: You can chat to friends that only have smart phones supporting this application and to friends having their account on Whatsapp. You can just send 100 messages in a month to friends not having Whatsapp on their phone.14) Lack of privacy as anyone can misuse profile picture : Your profile picture is visible to every person having your contact number and using this app, whether known by you or not.Existing System

This module basically discusses the functionality and features present in the existing systems basically concerning the online messaging apps on display today.

Introduction

WeChat

WeChat is a mobile text and voice messaging communication service developed by Tencent in China, first released in January 2011. It is the largest standalone messaging app by monthly active users.

The app is available on Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Symbian phones, and there are also Web-based and OS X clients but these require the user to have the app installed on a supported mobile phone for authentication. As of August 2014, WeChat has 438 million active users; with 70 million outside of China.

Users can register WeChat with Facebook account or sign up with phone number. WeChat currently supports phone numbers of more than 100 countries to register. Registration cannot be done directly through Tencent QQ. But users can connect their WeChat account with Tencent QQ account after registering through phone number.

WeChat provides text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, sharing of photographs and videos, and location sharing. It can exchange contacts with people nearby via Bluetooth, as well as providing various features for contacting people at random if desired (if these are open to it) and integration with social networking services such as those run by Facebook and Tencent QQ. Photographs may also be embellished with filters and captions, and a machine translation service is available.

The 'Moments', 'Shake',and 'People Nearby' are the three main features that Are totally new to users. Especially for 'Shake' function, people used this function to get red pocket money from Chinese Spring Festival Gala by shaking their mobile phones. All the money were released by different companies.

WeChat is being promoted in India via gaming site Ibibo, in which Tencent holds a stake

This China-made service has been compared to Facebook, since, like Line, because of the way it mixes a range of social network-like features with messaging. WeChat signed up football Lionel Messi as it bids to become popular beyond simply China and Asia.

WeChat includes the usual messaging features multimedia/group chat/push-to-talk voice messages alongside voice/video calls and opt-in accounts from brands, and some integrated services. WeChat includes discovery features, which are becoming popular ways to meet new people (i.e. date), perhaps in a crowded bar

WhatsApp

WhatsApp is an instant messaging app for smartphones that operates under a subscription business model. The proprietary, cross-platform app uses the Internet to send text messages, images, video, user location and audio media messages.

WhatsApp needs little introduction since it is arguably the worlds most popular messaging app, with more than 300 million people using it each month. Simplicity is at the core of the service, to the point that even the least-tech-savvy of folks such as mums, dads, grandmas and granddads should be able to send text messages, photos and voice messages.

The service costs $0.99 for a one-year subscription although it is free for the first year and it supports a wide range of phones.

In January 2015, WhatsApp was the most globally popular messaging app with more than 700 million active users. In April 2015, WhatsApp reached 800 million active users.

WhatsApp Inc., based in Mountain View, California, was acquired by Facebook on February 19, 2014, for approx. US$22 billion

Like the others, WhatsApp is free to download but has in-app purchases. You can use the app totally free for the first year but from then on you'll have to pay 65p per year. This isn't much but it makes it less attractive than its fully free rivals. Like Viber, WhatsApp uses your phone contacts and displays the ones which have the app installed. However, it does use the phone number associated to your SIM so you can't use it on multiple devices. This does mean that you don't have to log in and the app will save messages offline

Viber

Viber is an instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) app for smartphones developed by Viber Media. In addition to instant messaging, users can exchange images, video and audio media messages. The client software is available for Mac OS, Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS, Series 40, Symbian, Bada, Windows Phone, and Microsoft Windows.6 A 64-bit Linux version is available in both .deb (Debian & Ubuntu) and .rpm (Fedora & openSUSE) package formats. Viber works on both 3G/4G and Wi-Fi networks. It first requires installation on a phone in order to work on a desktop operating system environment Viber has over 100 million monthly active users from its 280 million global registered users Viber is a popular app for making video calls on your smartphone. Unlike Skype it was built to be on mobile first, and it only introduced a desktop client recently.

In addition to video and voice calls, Viber offers text chat that includes the very Asia concept of stickers. The app was bought by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten in early 2014, and there are plans to add gaming and shopping features in the future.

Viber supports even more mobile platforms than Skype including Symbian and Bada, although there's no Modern UI app for Windows 8. It's free and there are no ads which is great from a user point of view. You can share photos, videos and locations. You can even paint a doodle or draw over photo before sending it. Groups of up to 40 people can have a conversation and, whether you like them or not, there are both emoticons and stickers. The app handily syncs with your contact list, detecting which have Viber.