Azure Chat services capabilities

Question

Hi Team,

We would like to integrate and use Azure Chat services in mobile application.

Could you check and guide us on below functionalities can be fulfilled or any 3rd party API need to use?

• Multimedia messages
• Text messages
• Read receipts
• Using emojis
• React with emojis
• Reply to messages
• Tagging people
• Chat History
• Presence

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/communication-services/concepts/chat/concepts

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/communication-services/quickstarts/chat/get-started?tabs=windows&pivots=platform-azcli

Answer 1

@Ramakrishna Rao R N S Thanks for asking question! Yes, Azure Communication Services provides a Chat API that can be used to implement chat functionality in your mobile application. The Chat API supports the following functionalities:

• Multimedia messages: You can send and receive multimedia messages such as images, videos, and audio files.
• Text messages: You can send and receive text messages.
• Read receipts: You can receive read receipts when a message has been read by the recipient.
• Using emojis: You can use emojis in your messages.
• React with emojis: You can react to messages with emojis.
• Reply to messages: You can reply to specific messages in a chat.
• Tagging people: You can tag people in your messages.
• Chat history: You can retrieve chat history for a specific chat.
• Presence: You can see the presence status of other users in the chat.

To get started with Azure Communication Services Chat API, you can follow the quickstart guide that you have shared.

It provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a chat client and send messages using the Chat API.

If you need more advanced features or customization options, you can also consider using third-party chat APIs that integrate with Azure Communication Services.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.