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Sending a chat message

As mentioned in introduction, there are 3 types of chat messages - text messages, images, and files. There is a method in meeting.chat to send a message of each type.

Send a text message​

To send a text message, the meeting.chat.sendTextMessage() method can be used. This accepts a string message and sends it to the room.

val message = "Is this the real life?"
meeting.chat.sendTextMessage(message)

Send an image​

You can send an image with the help of meeting.chat.sendImageMessage() and sends it to the participants in the meeting.

val filePath = "file_path_of_image"
val fileName = "file_name"
meeting.chat.sendImageMessage(filePath, fileName)

Send a file​

Sending a file is quite similar to sending an image. The only difference is that when you send an image, a preview will be shown in the meeting chat, which is not the case for sending files. That being said, an image can be sent as a file too using meeting.chat.sendFileMessage().

val filePath = "file_path_of_image"
val fileName = "file_name"
meeting.chat.sendFileMessage(filePath, fileName)