Typing Indicators

Overview

This guide covers text typing indicators within a conversation.

Before you begin, make sure you added the SDK to your app and you are able to create a conversation.

NOTE: A step-by-step tutorial to build a chat application is available here.

This guide will make use of the following concepts:

Conversation Events - text:typing:on (start typing) and text:typing:off (stop typing) events that fire on a Conversation, after you are a Member

Typing Indicators

Typing Indicators are used to notify conversation members on whether or not a member is currently typing a text message.

Send typing state events

Set the Member's current typing (on/off) state when they start or stop typing a text message:

Listen for the state of other members

The following will listen for the typing (on/off) events created by the above calls:

Add NXMConversationDelegate as an extension to a ViewController or similar, and implement conversation(_ conversation: NXMConversation, didReceive event: NXMTextTypingEvent):

Note: The first method below is required when implementing NXMConversationDelegate:

Have a ViewController, or similar, conform to NXMConversationDelegate and implement conversation:didReceiveTypingEvent::

Note: The first method below is required when implementing NXMConversationDelegate:

Typing Indicators

Overview

Typing Indicators

Send typing state events

Listen for the state of other members

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