Customization

Kommunicate provides easy settings to customise message text color, background colors and enable of disable any particular feature.

Follow the below steps:

  1. Download the setting file from here.
  2. Place the downloaded applozic-settings.json file under your app/src/main/assets/ folder

There are a lot of customisation options in the file, refer this link for more details.

Hiding/Showing media attachment and location sharing options:

You can hide or show the media attachments options like camera, emoji, files and location sharing by changing the below values in applozic-settings.json file. Make an option false if you want to hide it.

"attachmentOptions": {
    ":location": true,
    ":camera": true,
    ":file": true,
    ":emoticons":true
  }

If location sharing functionality is enabled:

If you are NOT enabling location sharing functionality, you may go to the next step: Other properties

If you are enabling the location option in the applozic-settings.json file, make sure to include the below permissions and geo-API key in your AndroidManifest.xml file

Add the following permissions in your AndroidManifest.xml file:

   <uses-permission android:name="<your package name>.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE" />
   <permission
        android:name="<your package name>..permission.MAPS_RECEIVE"
        android:protectionLevel="signature" />

Add your geo-API_KEY in AndroidManifest.xml file:

   <meta-data
       android:name="com.google.android.geo.API_KEY"
       android:value="<your-geo-API-KEY>" />

Other properties

Apart from the properties mentioned in the above Applozic documentation, there are some other properties in applozic-seetings.json file that are specific to Kommunicate.

"hideGroupSubtitle" : true,   //True will hide the subtitle in the support group(for e.g 'Keith, bot and You' will be hidden)
"enableAwayMessage": false,   //Away message will be disabled
"logoutOption": false,        //The logout option in the Option menu will be hidden
"showStartNewConversation" : false, //The default Start New Conversation button will be hidden

Theme Customization

Not all the colors can be changed from the applozic-settings.json file. There are some colors like the statusbar/toolbar color, message statuc icon colors(sent, delivered etc icons) which you need to override in your colors file.

Follow the below steps to override the default colors in Kommunicate:

  1. Add the below line in your <resources tag in the colors.xml file
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
  1. Add the below colors in your colors.xml file and use your own color values in them
    <color name="message_status_icon_colors" tools:override="true">#FF4081</color> // Message status icon color
    <color name="applozic_theme_color" tools:override="true">#FFB3E5FC</color>     //Theme color
    <color name="applozic_theme_color_primary" tools:override="true">#FF4081</color> 
    <color name="applozic_theme_color_primary_dark" tools:override="true">#FF4081</color>
    <color name="applozic_theme_color_accent" tools:override="true">#3F51B5</color>
    <color name="default_start_new_button_color" tools:override="true">#FF4081</color> //Default start new conversation button color

Sample colors.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">
    <Your other app specific colors go here>
    
    <color name="message_status_icon_colors" tools:override="true">#FF4081</color>
    <color name="applozic_theme_color" tools:override="true">#FFB3E5FC</color>
    <color name="applozic_theme_color_primary" tools:override="true">#FF4081</color>
    <color name="applozic_theme_color_primary_dark" tools:override="true">#FF4081</color>
    <color name="applozic_theme_color_accent" tools:override="true">#3F51B5</color>
    <color name="default_start_new_button_color" tools:override="true">#FF4081</color>
</resources>
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