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💬 Gifted Chat
The most complete chat UI for React Native
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Scalable chat API/Server written in Go
API Tour | React Native Gifted tutorial
Features
- Write with TypeScript (since 0.8.0)
- Fully customizable components
- Composer actions (to attach photos, etc.)
- Load earlier messages
- Copy messages to clipboard
- Touchable links using react-native-parsed-text
- Avatar as user's initials
- Localized dates
- Multi-line TextInput
- InputToolbar avoiding keyboard
- Redux support
- System message
- Quick Reply messages (bot)
Dependency
- Use version
0.2.x
for RN>= 0.44.0
- Use version
0.1.x
for RN>= 0.40.0
- Use version
0.0.10
for RN< 0.40.0
Installation
- Using npm:
npm install react-native-gifted-chat --save
- Using Yarn:
yarn add react-native-gifted-chat
You have a question ?
- Please check this readme and may find a response
- Please ask on StackOverflow first: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/react-native-gifted-chat
- Find response on existing issues
- Try to keep issues for issues
Example
import React from 'react'
import { GiftedChat } from 'react-native-gifted-chat'
class Example extends React.Component {
state = {
messages: [],
}
componentWillMount() {
this.setState({
messages: [
{
_id: 1,
text: 'Hello developer',
createdAt: new Date(),
user: {
_id: 2,
name: 'React Native',
avatar: 'https://placeimg.com/140/140/any',
},
},
],
})
}
onSend(messages = []) {
this.setState(previousState => ({
messages: GiftedChat.append(previousState.messages, messages),
}))
}
render() {
return (
<GiftedChat
messages={this.state.messages}
onSend={messages => this.onSend(messages)}
user={{
_id: 1,
}}
/>
)
}
}
Advanced example
See example/App.js
for a working demo!
"Slack" example
See the files in example-slack-message
for an example of how to override the default UI to make something that looks more like Slack -- with usernames displayed and all messages on the left.
Message object
e.g. Chat Message
{
_id: 1,
text: 'My message',
createdAt: new Date(Date.UTC(2016, 5, 11, 17, 20, 0)),
user: {
_id: 2,
name: 'React Native',
avatar: 'https://facebook.github.io/react/img/logo_og.png',
},
image: 'https://facebook.github.io/react/img/logo_og.png',
// You can also add a video prop:
video: 'http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ElephantsDream.mp4',
// Any additional custom parameters are passed through
}
e.g. System Message
{
_id: 1,
text: 'This is a system message',
createdAt: new Date(Date.UTC(2016, 5, 11, 17, 20, 0)),
system: true,
// Any additional custom parameters are passed through
}
e.g. Chat Message with Quick Reply options
See PR #1211
interface Reply {
title: string
value: string
messageId?: any
}
interface QuickReplies {
type: 'radio' | 'checkbox'
values: Reply[]
keepIt?: boolean
}
{
_id: 1,
text: 'This is a quick reply. Do you love Gifted Chat? (radio) KEEP IT',
createdAt: new Date(),
quickReplies: {
type: 'radio', // or 'checkbox',
keepIt: true,
values: [
{
title: '😋 Yes',
value: 'yes',
},
{
title: '📷 Yes, let me show you with a picture!',
value: 'yes_picture',
},
{
title: '😞 Nope. What?',
value: 'no',
},
],
},
user: {
_id: 2,
name: 'React Native',
},
},
{
_id: 2,
text: 'This is a quick reply. Do you love Gifted Chat? (checkbox)',
createdAt: new Date(),
quickReplies: {
type: 'checkbox', // or 'radio',
values: [
{
title: 'Yes',
value: 'yes',
},
{
title: 'Yes, let me show you with a picture!',
value: 'yes_picture',
},
{
title: 'Nope. What?',
value: 'no',
},
],
},
user: {
_id: 2,
name: 'React Native',
},
}
Props
messages
(Array) - Messages to displaytext
(String) - Input text; default isundefined
, but if specified, it will override GiftedChat's internal state (e.g. for redux; see notes below)placeholder
(String) - Placeholder whentext
is empty; default is'Type a message...'
messageIdGenerator
(Function) - Generate an id for new messages. Defaults to UUID v4, generated by uuiduser
(Object) - User sending the messages:{ _id, name, avatar }
onSend
(Function) - Callback when sending a messagealwaysShowSend
(Bool) - Always show send button in input text composer; defaultfalse
, show only when text input is not emptylocale
(String) - Locale to localize the datestimeFormat
(String) - Format to use for rendering times; default is'LT'
dateFormat
(String) - Format to use for rendering dates; default is'll'
isAnimated
(Bool) - Animates the view when the keyboard appearsloadEarlier
(Bool) - Enables the "Load earlier messages" buttononLoadEarlier
(Function) - Callback when loading earlier messagesisLoadingEarlier
(Bool) - Display anActivityIndicator
when loading earlier messagesrenderLoading
(Function) - Render a loading view when initializingrenderLoadEarlier
(Function) - Custom "Load earlier messages" buttonrenderAvatar
(Function) - Custom message avatar; set tonull
to not render any avatar for the messageshowUserAvatar
(Bool) - Whether to render an avatar for the current user; default isfalse
, only show avatars for other usersshowAvatarForEveryMessage
(Bool) - When false, avatars will only be displayed when a consecutive message is from the same user on the same day; default isfalse
onPressAvatar
(Function(user
)) - Callback when a message avatar is tappedrenderAvatarOnTop
(Bool) - Render the message avatar at the top of consecutive messages, rather than the bottom; default isfalse
renderBubble
(Function) - Custom message bubblerenderSystemMessage
(Function) - Custom system messageonLongPress
(Function(context
,message
)) - Callback when a message bubble is long-pressed; default is to show an ActionSheet with "Copy Text" (see example usingshowActionSheetWithOptions()
)inverted
(Bool) - Reverses display order ofmessages
; default istrue
renderUsernameOnMessage
(Bool) - Indicate whether to show the user's username inside the message bubble; default isfalse
renderMessage
(Function) - Custom message containerrenderMessageText
(Function) - Custom message textrenderMessageImage
(Function) - Custom message imageimageProps
(Object) - Extra props to be passed to the<Image>
component created by the defaultrenderMessageImage
videoProps
(Object) - Extra props to be passed to the<Video>
component created by the defaultrenderMessageVideo
lightboxProps
(Object) - Extra props to be passed to theMessageImage
's LightboxrenderCustomView
(Function) - Custom view inside the bubblerenderDay
(Function) - Custom day above a messagerenderTime
(Function) - Custom time inside a messagerenderFooter
(Function) - Custom footer component on the ListView, e.g.'User is typing...'
; see example/App.js for an examplerenderChatFooter
(Function) - Custom component to render below the MessageContainer (separate from the ListView)renderInputToolbar
(Function) - Custom message composer containerrenderComposer
(Function) - Custom text input message composerrenderActions
(Function) - Custom action button on the left of the message composerrenderSend
(Function) - Custom send button; you can pass children to the originalSend
component quite easily, for example to use a custom icon (example)renderAccessory
(Function) - Custom second line of actions below the message composeronPressActionButton
(Function) - Callback when the Action button is pressed (if set, the defaultactionSheet
will not be used)bottomOffset
(Integer) - Distance of the chat from the bottom of the screen (e.g. useful if you display a tab bar)minInputToolbarHeight
(Integer) - Minimum height of the input toolbar; default is44
listViewProps
(Object) - Extra props to be passed to the messages<ListView>
; some props can't be overridden, see the code inMessageContainer.render()
for detailstextInputProps
(Object) - Extra props to be passed to the<TextInput>
keyboardShouldPersistTaps
(Enum) - Determines whether the keyboard should stay visible after a tap; see<ScrollView>
docsonInputTextChanged
(Function) - Callback when the input text changesmaxInputLength
(Integer) - Max message composer TextInput lengthparsePatterns
(Function) - Custom parse patterns for react-native-parsed-text used to linkify message content (like URLs and phone numbers), e.g.:
<GiftedChat
parsePatterns={(linkStyle) => [
{ type: 'phone', style: linkStyle, onPress: this.onPressPhoneNumber },
{ pattern: /#(\w+)/, style: { ...linkStyle, styles.hashtag }, onPress: this.onPressHashtag },
]}
/>
extraData
(Object) - Extra props for re-rendering FlatList on demand. This will be useful for rendering footer etc.minComposerHeight
(Object) - Custom min height of the composer.maxComposerHeight
(Object) - Custom max height of the composer.
scrollToBottom
(Bool) - Enables the scrollToBottom Component (Default is false)scrollToBottomComponent
(Function) - Custom Scroll To Bottom Component containerscrollToBottomOffset
(Integer) - Custom Height Offset upon which to begin showing Scroll To Bottom Component (Default is 200)alignTop
(Boolean) Controls whether or not the message bubbles appear at the top of the chat (Default is false - bubbles align to bottom)onQuickReply
(Function) - Callback when sending a quick reply (to backend server)renderQuickReply
(Function) - Custom quick reply view
Imperative methods
focusTextInput()
- Open the keyboard and focus the text input box
Redux
Notes forThe messages
prop should work out-of-the-box with Redux. In most cases this is all you need.
If you decide to specify a text
prop, GiftedChat will no longer manage its own internal text
state and will defer entirely to your prop.
This is great for using a tool like Redux, but there's one extra step you'll need to take:
simply implement onInputTextChanged
to receive typing events and reset events (e.g. to clear the text onSend
):
<GiftedChat
text={customText}
onInputTextChanged={text => this.setCustomText(text)}
/* ... */
/>
Notes for Android
If you are using Create React Native App / Expo, no Android specific installation steps are required -- you can skip this section. Otherwise we recommend modifying your project configuration as follows.
Make sure you have
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
in yourAndroidManifest.xml
:<activity android:name=".MainActivity" android:label="@string/app_name" android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize">
For Expo, there are almost 2 solutions to fix it:
- adding KeyboardAvoidingView after GiftedChat see this comment
- adding an opaque background status bar on app.json https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/guides/configuration.html#androidstatusbar
If you plan to use
GiftedChat
inside aModal
, see #200.
Notes for local development
- Install
yarn add -g expo-cli
expo start
Questions
- How can I set Bubble color for each user?
- How can I pass style props to InputToolbar design and customize it's color and other styles properties?
- How can I change the color of the message box?
- Is there a way to manually dismiss the keyboard?
- I want to implement a popover that pops right after clicking on a specific avatar, what is the best implementation in this case and how?
- Why TextInput is hidden on Android?
- How to use renderLoading?
- Can I use MySql to save the message?
License
Author
Feel free to ask me questions on Twitter @FaridSafi!
Contributors
- Kevin Cooper cooperka
- Kfir Golan kfiroo
- Bruno Cascio brunocascio
- Xavier Carpentier xcarpentier
- more