Hi Brian, I have two important suggestions in my opinon, that I woul love to learn from you: 1. Is it possible to cover in this course how to replicate the live video stream and interaction with audience? (people chat to you as you video stream and also use the heart reaction). 2. Allowing Geo tagging of a photo, using the CoreLocation to assign locations to our photos either automatically from location detection or manually via a MapKit? that would be so awesome and learn it from you is the best experience!

Huge thanks for your courses! Can you please briefly talk about how the app architecture can be improved? What would you do differently if it was going into production?

Can you integrate the social logins to this course?

every completed app has an app setting page or user setting page, those button functions, i mean how to enable them from settin page to controll another page, looked around and search the whole web, no one seems to mention it, is it too easy no one care to talk about it? but i really scratch my head to think how they work, please give some examples here. thanks

I'm getting this error when running your final project. Might be a Xcode 9 issue. Undefined symbols for architecture arm64: "__T0So22AVCapturePhotoSettingsC12AVFoundation01_abC16SwiftNativeTypesACWP", referenced from: __T017InstagramFirebase16CameraControllerC18handleCapturePhotoyyF in CameraController.o Any ideas?

Hey Brian, when I built the app you made just to see how it will look like at the end. When I post something it posts it twice for some reason, can you please help with that.

hi Brian... do u give us who purchased the instagram course a promotion code to get discount on coreData course ?

Hi Brain, In your final project there is animation that indicates loading of remaining posts. Could you guide it how can i achive that amination?

I suggest making the Stories feature. I’m also interested in learning about how to make different camera types, such as “hands-free” and “boomerang.” Thanks!

Brian please add the Stories Feature. Thanks!

Will be super helpful, Firebase Notifications one to one

could you please do a blocking feature ? to say; if i block someone and they search for me i won't come up in the userSearchController even in the unfiltered users part? im trying to do it with my app, would the best way be to append block users uid's to an array of blocked users uid's then if that array contains the uid of a user you are about to append the the users that appear on the screen { return } out of the fetch user function?

For a new course, I suggest making a course where you make an app and use a number of popular Swift libraries along the way — I’m curious about how Swift libraries can be used for a variety of uses. Some top Swift projects on Github by stars: https://github.com/topics/swift

Hi Brian , Could you please please please do a video putting the search bar in the header or between the header and the collection view and have it filter the results, just like your user search controller but with a collection view and header? Ben

apologies for being a pain but i solved it i was missing header.searchBar.delegate = self in the function below , override func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, viewForSupplementaryElementOfKind kind: String, at indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionReusableView { let header = collectionView.dequeueReusableSupplementaryView(ofKind: kind, withReuseIdentifier: headerId, for: indexPath) as! WorldSearchHeader header.currentUser = self.currentUser header.usersLocation = self.usersLocation header.delegate = self header.searchBar.delegate = self reloadInputViews() return header }

Hello Oracle or Brian which ever you prefer, turns out that my solution wasn't a complete fix as now when I type a letter into the search bar that's in my header its triggers textdidchange { collectionView?.reloadData() } and it reloads the data and i have to click on the search bar again to type in one more letter, which is not very user friendly could you suggest any ways around this , i've had many attempts at reloading just the cells and not the header but have had not success as yet, after many hours scouring the interenet Thanks Ben

Hello Brian, this course is finished?

Brian I want to create an observer for comments. exports.observeComments = functions.database.ref('/comments/{postId}/{id}/{uid}') its OK?

1. home feed pagination. 2. also home feed pagination. :D

What about updating badge numbers?

what about a live feed?

1. home feed pagination. it is important.

Home feed pagination is desperate! Always thanks for your awesome lectures

A more advanced user search algorithm would be very helpful. Firebase currently does not have a way of searching based on substrings or a "like" operator. ElasticSearch seems like it would be very beneficial here. I do not see a way of paginating the user search. With more than a hundred users, I feel like too much redundant data is being fetched. Thank you so much for all the new videos btw. You rock!

Great additional episodes added, thanks! I suggest a separate video about how to use Xcode/iPad Playgrounds to make UI changes, and about what is and isn't the same between Xcode Project and Xcode Playgrounds. Purpose is because of the speed of Playgrounds in loading what changes were made, particularly in case of learning and/or trying different approaches to a UI while not wanting to wait for the Xcode project to run. Thanks!

The course is awesome! But there is a LOT of stuff that has to be made, here's some: • Like amount • Videos • the post options • User description • Post description • User followers / posts / following • Settings • Bookmarks • the whole notification tab • Home Feed pagination • Live feed • Loading of paginating posts • Loads of small detaljs not mentioned And there is a lot more, looking forward to finishing the app soon. Thanks Brian!

Brian, please! Home feed pagination !!! tks

hey, thanks for awesome course. down below are my personal requests - home feed pagination :) - search for users without showing whole list - responsive (landscape / portrait) image close-view (from feed and user profile page) , maybe witch pinch zoom in and out.. - edit profile / follow / unfollow button fix (in the current state you can follow yourself)

I saw in your post in the Facebook Group that you may make the Stories feature for the Instagram course. That’s awesome!

Request for bonus lesson: Video capturing & front and rear facing camera flip

please Brian complete this app ,there are still so many things missing but at least please make the : Home feed pagination , Showing multiple images posted by user after clicking on a single photo of a user using UIPageViewController we can slide photos or even videos on a single view, HashTags Reply to comments Like Comments Delete Comments Report User Block User

Am I missing it or did he show how to delete posts?

Also how to retrieve and show like count and comment count in the UI would be HUGEE. Brian you the man, thanks for all the work. Love your story about how you became an entrepreneur too

Adding story like instagram has now :)

More Cloud Functions, for example; When an user click in like button your post, you will receive a notification that this user likes your post.

how do you block users? every social app, needs to have this function so it can be approved and tested

would you add a course so we can pick multi images and post multi photo at the same post, like instagram and facebook and WeChat I look entire youtube, they all only teach one photo for one post, is really that hard ? anyone know please give me. a hint or something. thanks so much

Hey Brian! When are the new episodes coming out? I asked you 3 months ago and said that you'd start working on new ones in one month. Are you finished soon? Can't wait until the new episodes comes out!

Hello again Brian! I like the new layout of your website! Really looking forward to seeing the new episodes coming along soon. I mean that's what we payed for right?

Hi Brian, i would like you to do the story like instagram or snapchat.

hello Brian, Could you make a tutorial on image size estimation of images on firebase to be used in a collection view. thanks

hello Brian, This course is for Android developer, or just IOS I'm an Android developer. Tanks

Hi Brain I want to know how to implement transitions with interactively swiping. Thank you.

Has anyone figured out home feed pagination? I would love to see that code. Also in the profile, Brians finished version he has an activityController when loading new posts. Has anyone figured this out? If anyone could comment an answer I will be forever grateful!

Please show us ARC in this project.

how do we create an user bio and update our profile pic?

Brian, I'm trying to update the user's profile image. We can do this with createProfileChangeRequest(). I can store the image we select in the UIImagePickerController to storage. I'm also setting the value we get from the ImageUrl, but it doesn't update in our user's database structure please tell me what to do. I also set a button in the userprofile header and then set the delegate to be able to call this function in our userprofile controller. I'm not sure if it's because when we call the userprofile it's a customimageview, it doesn't work. Please help. func didtapImage() { print("from userprofile controller") let imagePickerController = UIImagePickerController() imagePickerController.delegate = self imagePickerController.allowsEditing = true present(imagePickerController, animated: true) { } } @objc func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : Any]) { print("123") if let editedImage = info["UIImagePickerControllerEditedImage"] as? UIImage { print("what's going on here") let image = editedImage guard let uploadData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 0.3) else {return} let filename = NSUUID().uuidString let storageItem = Storage.storage().reference().child("profile_Image").child(filename) storageItem.putData(uploadData, metadata: nil) { (metadata, err) in if let err = err { print("failed to upload", err) return } storageItem.downloadURL(completion: { (downloadURL, err) in guard let profileImageUrl = downloadURL?.absoluteString else {return} print("successfully uploaded profile image:", profileImageUrl) guard let currentUser = Auth.auth().currentUser?.createProfileChangeRequest() else {return} let dictionaryValues = ["profileImageUrl": profileImageUrl] let values = [currentUser: dictionaryValues] currentUser.photoURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: profileImageUrl) currentUser.commitChanges(completion: { (err) in if let err = err { print("not updated error", err) guard let uid = Auth.auth().currentUser?.uid else {return} let ref = Database.database().reference().child("users").child(uid) ref.setValue(values, withCompletionBlock: { (err, ref) in print("changedImage") if let err = err { print("did not get image",err) } print("updated user's profile image") }) } print("updated user image", profileImageUrl) self.collectionView?.reloadData() }) }) } } else if let originalImage = info["UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage"] as? UIImage { let image = originalImage //same functions as above dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil) }

Good Day! Do you have any plans and/or tutorials that give an example of How-To Block a user in Firebase? Thank You, -Patrick

I would like to see video on how to request to follow a user that is set to private

Good Day! I would like to know How-To complete the "Delete User' code. I can call the Current User and print out their UID. When I run the code, that I would think is correct, it Deletes ALL Users, ALL Posts and ALL Following data. Can you give me guidance on the below Code?? Thank you in advance. Plus, I figured out the Code to Block a user. I repurposed the Following code. Here is my 'work in process' Delete User code: /// Put The Delete Account Code Here! And Then Return To Login Controller alertController.addAction(UIAlertAction.init(title: "Delete Account!", style: UIAlertActionStyle.destructive, handler: { (action) in print("This Is Trying To Delete A Post!") /// This Is Where The Delete Code Goes let alertViewController = UIAlertController(title: "Pic1K", message: "Are You Sure You Want To Delete Your Account?", preferredStyle: .alert) let yesAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Yes", style: .destructive) { (action) -> Void in self.actionString = "YES" print("This is the YES Button To Delete ALL Of The Users Posts!!!!") guard let uid = Auth.auth().currentUser?.uid else { return } print(uid) let ref = Database.database().reference().child(uid).child("users").child("posts").child("following") print(ref)

Hey Brian, Thanks for the great course. I have been working on adding pagination to the comments page for some time now, but am completely stuck. I tried creating a custom uicollectionviewLayout to create bottom-up collectionview, but no luck. I was able to get messages to appear bottom-up, but I need the collection view to begin at bottom directly on navigation to comments page and paginate when scrolling up instead of down like on the home page. I also tried transforming collectionview upside-down and transforming cells upside down, but there seems to be a bug where the collectionview's contentsize get's completely messed up when transforming it. Basically, I am trying to do something similar to how any message page works on most apps and iphone messaging. Do you have any experience with this or can you point me in the right direction? Best, Sam

Hi Brian, this course was excellent and hands down the best purchase I have made in my iOS learning path so far. It might be minor but it would be great to see your interpretation of how to move the textfields up when showing the keyboard in the login/sign up screen. In particular for the smaller iPhone sizes such as SE and 5S. I have had a go but always feel reassured when seeing your approaches. Many thanks.

Hello Brian! I searched your videos and I haven't found a video regarding size classes and implementing them through code (for different layouts between phone and tablet for both orientations), I think it would be great if you could teach that to us! Thanks for your great work so far.

Instagram API?

This series is dead right? It's cool in case it is but I would like to know if that's the case instead of you saying that you're planning to continue it in the future. Thank you for all the amazing episodes so far!

home feed pagination please. many people asked it as well. please!!!

Hello Brian, Please make a video on uploading files like video and audio to firebase and access it from the database. Thankyou

displaying only "unread" / unseen news feed

delete and update

delete and update profile information

Hi Brian, I would like to know when will this video come out?

Brian please add the story function with videos AND FILTER PLEASE . It is so important and no one show it. Please create an additional course and take money its fair but please show the video and filter function. THERE IS NOTHING IN THE WHOLE WORLD WIDE WEB ABOUT IT

Hello Brian! Thank you very much for your courses. Could you make a Weather Temperature Alarm App that will notify with Notification? I would really appreciate that! For the instagram app: Edit Profile button changes to Follow button after pressing. Block or hide some posts. "View More" if the captionLabel is too long so the text would extend

Could anyone give a hint on how to let users to upload private post and post that certain selected people can see that? Excuse my poor English i hope you understood what i'm trying to say

Hello Brian! Could you tell me how to count numbers of following and follower?

Hello Brain! Thanks for the series. I have developed an app after watching your videos. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app//id1452324335?ls=1&mt=8 Thanks for the detailed tutorial. I really loved it. I would like to see geoLocation or backend management controller (how to manage posts and users as admin) on the bonus lesson or lessons.

hi Brian Thanks for amazing course. I think that update this series with new features would be a great product. Instagram Advance must be great for us. I hope you consider tp develop an advance series Thanks

Hi brian ... where is bonus lesson for this course ?

Update the deprecated code on the "new" for Swift 5. Camera Protocol Obsolete.

Lesson #49 is already deprecated. .UITextViewTextDidChange on the Notification Center has been renamed after we rename it to .UITextView.textDidChangeNotification, it says it's Type of expression is ambiguous without more contex

'jpegPhotoDataRepresentation(forJPEGSampleBuffer:previewPhotoSampleBuffer:)' was deprecated in iOS 11.0: Use -[AVCapturePhoto fileDataRepresentation] instead. How do you find out the implementation of things so easily?

Hi Brian, I was just wondering about something after watching your Tinder courses, but for an application like Instagram, would it be better to use the custom image loading/cache code from this course or to use the library that you used in the Tinder course?

Can you provide a fix on the paginatePosts() function so the collection of images refreshes properly after the user adds a new photo?

Hi Brian, it is really excited to watch your video as there is so many treasures to dig! As a social app, I guess it would be very nice if you can add chat section inside of this app. I know you have released Chat app with Youtube video, but hopefully you can integrate this part in Instagram app. Thanks!

An actual notification view controller would be nice, and hashtags?

Brain, Do you have a course that teaches us how to use two different collection views in one view? For example one horizontal view above that displays different user profiles to follow, and one vertical view below that displays all followed users post?

Brain hey, Do any of your other lessons cover - A report button ( photo or comment) - Settings UI ( Change password, delete account, change email, Notification settings) - Share button ( share a photo via iMessage, etc)

Hi Brain, Thanks for the awesome Tutorial, for the bonus lesson i would suggest to upload mutilple images and also show multiple images in the HomePostCell just like instagram app show...

If you can showcase how to change/update email or password that would be great. For some reason when trying to re-authenticate user I cannot get the email and password values no idea how to retrieve those for the credentials

Hi Brian, Can you update the user profile like a new Instagram App UI?

When you select a photo, how can we fetch the next item or previous as well? So the users can continue scrolling after they have selected to see the more detail view of a photo.

Can you cover how to refresh a FCM token if it is not longer valid? If users uninstall the app or update, It keeps the old FCM token in the database and doesn't update it. So users stop receiving push notifications

Can somebody post their working index.js please.

Hello Brian, Can you make bonus lesson about deleting a post from the database I am really interesting in seeing how you would go about doing that?

I downloaded the project from video 49, and relized there is a additional download in 50. When I download it I get all zip files, which project is the latest and greatest? Or is the one from 49 ok to use? I notice on 49 the 4th tab doesn't work and was wondering if that is fixed in 50. If I should use download from 50. Is it project numerated #14?