[Suggestions] backup chat, voice call and block chat (user)should be added to firebase chat application

Components

The application of fire base chat demo is an application that allows users to send and receive messages in real time between registered users using the services offered by fire base. The app also integrates push notifications provided by firebase cloud messanging.

Proposal

I suggest open source should add the following features to firebase chat application to enhance the messenger and smoothens conversation.

• backup chat feature the feature would help to recover previously chat of a user if phone is misplaced or the app mistakenly deleted from a user storage.

• video call feature add this feature to firebase chat would be of a great important as it would enhance communication process of which allows user who may not likely chat to communicate facially with it friends in distance.

•block user would give users control over choice of friends to keep for a chat as the feature will allowed them to block unwanted and infuriating friends on their messenger.

Mockups / Examples

Here is where my suggested features should be located on the app.

Video call should locate unlike some other messenger like WhatsApp.

Here are the features in other advanced messenger application

Here is an option where users can chose to backup their chats.

Implemented voice call feature on WhatsApp messenger

Block feature on the same messenger

Benefits

Benefit of backup chat would enable the safe-keeping of chats to a cloud storage or even the users google drive where chats can be retrieved in the case of reinstallation of the app. It will help curb the fear users would have over loss of chats if any unforeseen circumstances occurred they can recover their previously and yet to read chats.

•video call users would benefit from this feature as it will increase their communication process if they feel reluctantly in typing or conversation may necessarily call for facial and voice talk thereby the feature would really play the important role by easing this pace.

• block user (chat); users would also benefit from this feature as will allows and ensure utmost privacy of users by blocking unwanted chats from the messenger and let them chose whose friends to keep and block if they eventually becomes
Annoying or inconvenient to keep.

Hence,through this availability of the aforementioned features, the app would stand the chance of getting more downloads by users as the app would offered smarter and flexible means of communication and user friendly.