How to implement reply chat.

[rabadiya-vishal]

As I want to implement reply to message as mentioned in attached screenshot.
I am using 2.8.1, but i didn't find any option to implement this.

Also this type with attached message in input box.

[DimaIvashchuk]

As I am aware there is no solution out if the box

I had to implement my custom logic for that

I can share some details how I did it if you want

[henrikra]

@kesha-antonov Do we have feature for reply feature?

[kesha-antonov]

@kesha-antonov Do we have feature for reply feature?

Not sure
Didn't use it with this lib

Would be cool to have it in the examples though

[DimaIvashchuk]

@kesha-antonov  currently this lib does not have reply feature so I had to implement it using some hacks

in message bubble there is a props like renderAudio video etc, since my chat does not have video functionality I used renderVideo prop to render rely message.
So it would be nice to add new prop to bubble renderReplyMessage and add to Message type a reply message with the same definition as currentMessage like id, user, text.

this will allow us at least to have an ability to create custom reply functionality without using existed props not by design

I can share an example how it was implemented in my project

P.S. It would be nice to have also an emoji reactions!! I implemented this one feature as well so if you are interested I can share it as well

here is a demo

IMG_6185.MP4

[kesha-antonov]

@DimaIvashchuk looks awesome!

PRs and code examples always welcome, thanks!

[henrikra]

@DimaIvashchuk Please make PR!

[DimaIvashchuk]

Hey @kesha-antonov @henrikra !
I created PR for reply message example
#2690
Sorry for possible mess, eslint didn’t work out of the box and I didnt bother to fix it

tell me what do you think about it, you may use it as a ref to add this functionality to your lib

I can also create an example PRs that will show how to implement REACTIONS and MENTIONS if needed
Unfortunately I do not have enough time at this moment to contribute to the lib functionality as well

[DimaIvashchuk]

@kesha-antonov created a PR for reply message functionality #2692

[cyrus25]

@DimaIvashchuk can you also share the implementation for reactions?

[kesha-antonov]

#2692

Look at this PR and apply that code to your codebase

[DimaIvashchuk]

@DimaIvashchuk can you also share the implementation for reactions?

You can find an example here https://github.com/DimaIvashchuk/react-native-emoji-picker/blob/master/example/App.tsx

With gifted chat just extend Message type and add you handlers to open / close bottom sheet, select emoji etc

If you need the actual implementation that I have in my project just tell me

sorry for late response

[DimaIvashchuk]

@kesha-antonov do you want me to open a pr to add emojis reaction functionality?