Chat functionality

[Alfredo_Pou]

Can I add a chat to an appsheet application?
I was reading about the chatbot feature, but it doesn’t allow you to chat from the application, but rather the opposite, use the app from the Facebook chat. Is there any way to integrate facebook chat to be able to add chat functionality between users within the application?

[LeventK]

@Alfredo_Pou
I believe a handy, chat-like app can be simply built with enabling push notifications. And it’s relatively easy to build an inbox also.

[Alfredo_Pou]

@LeventK
I honestly can’t think of how to do it, especially because of the update times of appsheet, many times it takes hours for a data to synchronize. And how would you design the chat view? with a table view?
Is there an example app available on appsheet?

[LeventK]

@Alfredo_Pou
There is no sample app like this in AppSheet to the best of my knowledge. But provided the usage of the app is just for chatting (pure text) I don’t think sync might be an issue. You can design the chat view the way you like actually. Grouping as per name and having the chat log as an inline view under that name’s detail view could be a good option I believe.