> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.mitter.io/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.mitter.io/getting-started/build-your-first-ios-app.md).

# Build Your First iOS App

> **NOTE** The Getting Started docs show you how to build your first Mitter.io app with our cloud-hosted sandbox only.
>
> To use it with your docker container, simply change the base API Url (when creating the mitter object) to the address of your running docker container.

## Introduction

Before we get started with this tutorial, let’s have a quick primer on what Mitter.io is and what we will be building in this tutorial.

### What is Mitter.io?

Mitter.io is a messaging platform that allows you to build apps around messaging. You can treat a message as something more than just an envelope for text with our platform.

### What are we going to build?

In this tutorial, we’re going to build a simple chat app which can send and receive messages..

### Where's the repository for this project?

You can find the complete project [**hosted on GitHub**](https://github.com/mitterio/mitter-android-demo). Feel free to clone the repository and play around.