Gifted Messenger

Ready-to-use chat interface for iOS and Android React-Native apps

Dependency: React-Native >= v0.20.0 (scrollTo is now using {x, y, animated})

Changelog

0.0.24

• Fix textInputContainer issue #83

0.0.23

• Scroll to bottom after onSend, Add enablesReturnKeyAutomatically setting to end on return key (PR @alizbazar)
• New prop onMessageLongPress (PR @corymsmith)
• displayNamesInsideBubble and keyboardShouldPersistTaps props (PR @koppelaar)
• Expose full rowData to renderCustomText and add dynamic hide/show text input (PR @bpeters)

Example

var GiftedMessenger = require('react-native-gifted-messenger');
var {Dimensions} = React;

var GiftedMessengerExample = React.createClass({
  getMessages() {
    return [
      {text: 'Are you building a chat app?', name: 'React-Native', image: {uri: 'https://facebook.github.io/react/img/logo_og.png'}, position: 'left', date: new Date(2015, 0, 16, 19, 0)},
      {text: "Yes, and I use Gifted Messenger!", name: 'Developer', image: null, position: 'right', date: new Date(2015, 0, 17, 19, 0)},
    ];
  },
  handleSend(message = {}, rowID = null) {
    // Send message.text to your server
  },
  handleReceive() {
    this._GiftedMessenger.appendMessage({
      text: 'Received message',
      name: 'Friend',
      image: {uri: 'https://facebook.github.io/react/img/logo_og.png'},
      position: 'left',
      date: new Date(),
    });
  },
  render() {
    return (
      <GiftedMessenger
        ref={(c) => this._GiftedMessenger = c}

        messages={this.getMessages()}
        handleSend={this.handleSend}
        maxHeight={Dimensions.get('window').height - 64} // 64 for the navBar

        styles={{
          bubbleLeft: {
            backgroundColor: '#e6e6eb',
            marginRight: 70,
          },
          bubbleRight: {
            backgroundColor: '#007aff',
            marginLeft: 70,
          },
        }}
      />
    );
  },
});

Advanced example

See GiftedMessengerExample/GiftedMessengerExample.js

Installation

npm install react-native-gifted-messenger --save

Props

Props name	Type	Description	Platform	Default
messages	Array	List of messages to display	Both	[]
displayNames	Boolean	Display or not the name of the interlocutor(s)	Both	true
displayNamesInsideBubble	Boolean	Display the name of the interlocutor(s) inside the bubble	Both	false
placeholder	String	TextInput placeholder	Both	'Type a message...'
styles	Function	Styles of children components - See GiftedMessenger.js/componentWillMount	Both	{}
autoFocus	Boolean	TextInput auto focus	Both	true
onErrorButtonPress	Function	Called when the re-send button is pressed	Both	(message, rowID) => {}
loadEarlierMessagesButton	Boolean	Display or not the button to load earlier message	Both	false
loadEarlierMessagesButtonText	String	Label of the 'Load Earlier Messages' button	Both	'Load earlier messages'
onLoadEarlierMessages	Function	Called when 'Load Earlier Message' button is pressed	Both	(oldestMessage, callback) => {}
handleSend	Function	Called when a message is Sent	Both	(message, rowID) => {}
maxHeight	Integer	Max height of the component	Both	Dimensions.get('window').height
senderName	String	Name of the sender of the messages	Both	'Sender'
senderImage	Object	Image of the sender	Both	null
sendButtonText	String	'Send' button label	Both	'Send'
onImagePress	Function	Called when the image of a message is pressed	Both	(rowData, rowID) => {}
parseText	Boolean	If the text has to be parsed with taskrabbit/react-native-parsed-text	iOS	true
handleUrlPress	Function	Called when a parsed url is pressed	iOS	(url) => {}
handlePhonePress	Function	Called when a parsed phone number is pressed	iOS	(phone) => {}
handleEmailPress	Function	Called when a parsed email is pressed	iOS	(email) => {}
hideTextInput	Boolean	Hide or not the text input	Both	false
keyboardShouldPersistTaps	Boolean	When false, tapping the scrollview dismisses the keyboard.	Both	true
keyboardDismissMode	String	Method to dismiss the keyboard when dragging (none, interactive, on-drag)	Both	interactive
returnKeyType	Boolean	Determine if pressing 'send' will trigger handleSend	iOS	false
submitOnReturn	Boolean	Send message when clicking on submit	Both	false
forceRenderImage	Boolean	Always render the users images (avatar)	Both	false
onCustomSend	Function	If you want to implement a progress bar. See PR #16	Both	(message) => {}
renderCustomText	Function	Implement your own text rendering	Both	(rowData) => {}
onChangeText	Function	Called on every keypress in the TextInput	Both	(text) => {}

Props update

The UI is updated when receiving new messages prop.

API

• appendMessages(messages = []) // Add messages at the end of the list view

• appendMessage(message = {}) // Add 1 message at the end of the list view

• prependMessages(messages = []) // Add messages at the begining of the list view

• prependMessage(message = {}) // Add 1 message at the begining of the list view

• setMessageStatus(status = '', rowID) // Set the status of a message ('ErrorButton', 'Sent', 'Seen', 'Anything you want')

• getMessage(rowID) // Get message object by rowID

• getPreviousMessage(rowID) // Get previous message object of a rowID

• getNextMessage(rowID) // Get next message object of a rowID

Message object

var message = {
  text: 'Message content',
  name: "Sender's name",
  image: {uri: 'https://facebook.github.io/react/img/logo_og.png'},
  position: 'left', // left if received, right if sent
  date: new Date(),
  view: null, // A custom Bubble view
  // ...any attributes you want
};

License

MIT

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