Ralz

This looks like a fun tutorial for a weekend project. Thanks for sharing!

I remember hearing in a podcast that openbazaar.org tried this approach but because of unreliable clients parts of the network would be completely unaccessible. They then went with a partially decentralized solution with a few main nodes always supporting the system. I'm not sure what has changed in the design since that podcast episode though.

Thanks I was looking for something like this!

Isn't keeping the key not on the client more secure. If the encrypted data is on the client then the key would have to be on the client at some point to decrypt it. If my phone is jailbroken it wouldn't be too hard to extract the key and depending on the security of the app it may be likely that this key is used for every client.

Not true at all! At least in Toronto most of the companies here are hiring Java programmers like crazy. Depends where you want to work, I assume in the Valley it's all Node, Ruby, iOS. I guess Android is all java as well.

This is beautiful.

That seems like a good idea but I only use gchat on my PC, for my phone it's text messages. I don't like it when someone assumes that I'm on my PC and starts to have a conversation with me as when I'm on the go I'm not able to have a serious chat. At least with txt msgs both parties know that you may not respond in time and that you may be brief with your responses.

You're right I messed up, the time-stamps are there I just didn't notice them right away as they are faded and underneath the message.

Just switched back to check this out. I see the green bar under only one of my friends but the rest that are online or away don't have this. Do they also have to have hangouts enabled for me to see that?

Also, I understand that they are trying to make things minimal and look cool but it's not something that's very intuitive or noticeable. I thought it might have meant that I have a chat window open with that person.