Text chat developer guide#

Vivox provides a text chat service:

• Text chat - channel-based and directed text chat.
  • Chat messages can contain any language or content up to service-defined size and rate limits.
  • Chat messages are transported over TLS. No chat messages are saved or archived.

The following additional features can be enabled:

• Adaptive Chat filter
• Chat history
• Text evidence management
• Edit and delete messages
• Offline direct messages
• Anti-flooding
• Large text channel support
• Retrieve conversations list
• Set Chat Markers

The server can customize a maximum byte count for text messages in its pre-login configuration. By default, the maximum is 320 bytes with UTF-8 encoding. A text message that exceeds the maximum length in bytes is rejected with a VxErrorMessageTextTooLong error.

Text chat requires a Unicode-supported system to work properly. The Unity Editor has full Unicode support in versions 2017.1 and later.