Follow / Unfollow

Following relationships are a fundamental part of social networks. This creates a relationship between users in Social features.

the connection between users will be used to determine the visibility and the accessibility of data in User Feed and Global feed data.

User relationship concept

In the current state, our SDK provides a one-direction relationship. For example, when user A has followed User B, in this case, the system will know that user A has connected to user B.

User Connection method concept

In the current state, our SDK provides 2 ways for users to create relationships with other users, this connection method will be applied to every user in the network.

1. With request process

Once a user sends the Follow action to the target userId , the system will send the request to the target user. Until the target user accepts the follow request, the connection will not yet be established.

2. Without Request process

Once a user sends the Follow action to the target userId, the system will automatically establish the connection between 2 users.

By default, the connection method is With request process.

If you wish to change the connection method, you can contact our support team to choose between 1 of these 2 options.

Get follow status and connection counter

The first step to start following other users is to know the connection status of the target user. You can follow this line of code.

For self

For other user

Our SDK does provide 3 status

1.Accept : this status means the target user has already connected to the SDK method caller.

2.Pending : this status means the target user has already received the follow request from the SDK method caller. This status will only available when the connection method setting is With request process

3.None : this status means the target user has not connected to the SDK caller.

With this method, you can also receive the total count of:

1.Following counter : this is the total number of users who the target user has follow.

2.Follower counter : this is the total number of users who followed the target user.

3.Pending counter : this is the total number of follow request the target user has received

Follow other user

To start following other users, our SDK has been designed to be easy to use. You can simply pass the userId who you want to follow and we will do the rest. please try the following code.

Withdraw your follow request

In case that you want to withdraw your request. You can follow this code.

Get Follower user list

To see the Follower user list, you can follow this code.

For Self

For Other user

We currently do not support sorting of the follower user list.

Get Following user list

To see the Following user list, you can try this code.

For self

For other user

We currently do not support sorting of the following user list.

Get Follower request list

To see the Following request list, you can try this code.

We currently do not support sorting of the following request user list.

Accept follower request

To accept the follower request, you can try this code.

Note if the Follower request is no longer available (either the follower request sender has withdrawn the request or the request has been accepted or declined before.) SDK will return the error message.

Decline follower request

To decline the follower request, you can try this code.

If the Follower request is no longer available (either the follower request sender has withdrawn the request or the request has been accepted or declined before), SDK will return the error message.

Implement follow pagination

Whether you're querying a following or followers list, a maximum of 15 items in each page will be returned. Pagination in Android uses the Paging3 library. It will automatically handle the loading of the next page when the user scrolls the list based on PagingSource logic.

Getting Realtime Updates

SDK supports real time events to reflect changes related to current user’s follower/following list. For example, when a user removes a follower in the follower list, it can be reflected automatically in another user's device. Refer to the Follow topic in Realtime events for the implementation details.