Need Help developing a simple app

I want to make a simple app that allows users to send messages to specific users. So for example i want user1 to be able to launch the app, type the username of user2 and send a message to him or her. User2 will be be able to read the message only by signing up and signing in with this specific username. Can someone point me in the right direction? Is it possible to make this app with corona? please tell me what exactly i need to learn in order to develop this simple app.

I wouldn’t call this “simple”.  It’s simple in structure, but the communications and management of your users is a more advanced topic.  We have our Corona Cloud solution which will let you do most of this easier that if you tried to build it on your own, but there is still a lot of work to have forms to register the user, manage their login/passwords as well as connect to chat rooms and pass messages back and forth. 

It’s also something that might be done with Push notifications as well.

I wouldn’t call this “simple”.  It’s simple in structure, but the communications and management of your users is a more advanced topic.  We have our Corona Cloud solution which will let you do most of this easier that if you tried to build it on your own, but there is still a lot of work to have forms to register the user, manage their login/passwords as well as connect to chat rooms and pass messages back and forth. 

It’s also something that might be done with Push notifications as well.

Hi, i have all my structure of users, db password, i already manage user log-in registration etc… with a PHP application on my server. I use http request to interact with corona and it works.

For the chat i don’t know how corona clouds work yet. I’m trying to do the same with a node.js server, mysql db and sockets. I didn’t do mutch yet, but i will let you know. 

Hi, i have all my structure of users, db password, i already manage user log-in registration etc… with a PHP application on my server. I use http request to interact with corona and it works.

For the chat i don’t know how corona clouds work yet. I’m trying to do the same with a node.js server, mysql db and sockets. I didn’t do mutch yet, but i will let you know.