Anoniv Chat: A Cloud-Based Ios Application for Communication without Revealing the Identity

Abstract

Communication is the part and parcel of everyone. In organizations including educational institu-tions, Group communication is a common phenomenon. This type of communication happens between employees of the same team or organization, students of the same course or department, etc. Many mobile applications provide a group communication facility. However, the privacy of users is often compromised. For instance, in the WhatsApp Group, the mobile numbers are visible to every recipient. That is not always desirable. So, in this paper, a cloud-based iOS application is proposed for group communication in which the contact numbers are not visible. The administrator will control the read and write access to the recipients. Even, the identification label of the users inside the chat screen will be decided by the administrator. The application is coded in Swift. Cloud FireStore, one of the tools of the Firebase is used as the database and Firebase SDK is integrated with the code using CocoaPods.