# Glide's Community Built Messenger **URL:** \ **Category:** Project Showcase\ **Created:** [December 24, 2020, 5:19am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247 "2020-12-24T05:19:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 5:19am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/1 "2020-12-24T05:19:46Z")
A Private Messenger app similar to the ones that come native on your phone. Iโ€™ve created an entirely different way of submitting a chat message that allows you to view the chat as it is and this chat shows the last message sent as part of the icon in your list of chats alongside the timestamp of when it occured. I honestly thought I submitted a showcase for this weeks ago but I guess I just forgot. And as always itโ€™s 100% free ๐Ÿ˜ > **[Glide's Community Messenger](https://free-chickens-8769.glideapp.io/)** [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhJTSccUbFg) ---
**Author:** ![erwblo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/erwblo/32/75_2.png) [@erwblo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/erwblo)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 6:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/2 "2020-12-24T06:58:28Z")
Really impressive! ---
**Author:** ![Rosewebstudio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/rosewebstudio/32/12261_2.png) [@Rosewebstudio](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Rosewebstudio)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/3 "2020-12-24T07:11:23Z")
Great app ๐Ÿ‘ very useful ---
**Author:** ![Wiz.Wazeer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/wiz.wazeer/32/72423_2.png) [@Wiz.Wazeer](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Wiz.Wazeer)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 10:08am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/4 "2020-12-24T10:08:25Z")
๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ ---
**Author:** ![Manan\_Mehta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/manan_mehta/32/13957_2.png) [@Manan\_Mehta](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Manan_Mehta)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/5 "2020-12-24T10:43:10Z")
This is smart, I use a similar method in my networking apps. You can add some value by: 1. Linking your free text notifications to this 2. Adding an option to upload media 3. Creating a group chat ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/6 "2020-12-24T14:55:50Z")
I might just add those things. I really didnโ€™t think much about it to be honest. I was trying to build a private chat for the back end of my kiosk and after I built it we decided to do something much different so I just rebuilt the messenger part on its ownโ€ฆI will probably add those things. ---
**Author:** ![eltintero](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/eltintero/32/76520_2.png) [@eltintero](https://community.glideapps.com/u/eltintero)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/7 "2020-12-24T17:19:17Z")
Good job, Joe!! ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/8 "2020-12-24T17:20:57Z")
Thank you sir ๐Ÿค— ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/9 "2020-12-24T17:29:33Z")
@Manan_Mehta So you said add a group chatโ€ฆhas anyone made a group chat in Glide yet? I havenโ€™t seen one. Gonna make this app have 2 firsts if thatโ€™s the case. ---
**Author:** ![Manan\_Mehta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/manan_mehta/32/13957_2.png) [@Manan\_Mehta](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Manan_Mehta)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/10 "2020-12-24T18:59:52Z")
I have made some similar ones, group chats or threads where you could tag a specific user who is involved and on that basis they receive a notification ---
**Author:** ![gp9293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gp9293/32/16743_2.png) [@gp9293](https://community.glideapps.com/u/gp9293)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/11 "2020-12-25T14:03:08Z")
Group chat. Yes, please work on it. ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/12 "2020-12-25T23:36:38Z")
I am happy to announce that @Jeff_Hager has decided to help me work on this community template and I think we will have some more features coming to it very soon ๐Ÿ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![erwblo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/erwblo/32/75_2.png) [@erwblo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/erwblo)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/13 "2020-12-26T15:58:08Z")
great! ---
**Author:** ![MaxB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maxb/32/15623_2.png) [@MaxB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaxB)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 10:47am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/14 "2020-12-27T10:47:23Z")
We should thank you by sending you a new microphone ๐Ÿ˜ƒ ๐Ÿ˜„ ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/15 "2020-12-27T18:02:01Z")
Very funny, very funny. But no thanks needed ๐Ÿ˜ ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/16 "2020-12-27T18:36:59Z")
So I think we might do a nightly build on this app until itโ€™s done. I will post on here the most recent one with features added or updated. Since we missed a few days hereโ€™s whats new. @Jeff_Hager added some CSS to create a floating field for chat as well as moving all chat directly into Glide sheets so responses are instantaneous. I tweaked the CSS just a little to move the floating field to the bottom of the screen and added floating buttons to add new chat as well as to send your message. So, now when you scroll through messages your message field to type into is always visible. and with the floating buttons it takes up minimal space. > **[Glide's Community Messenger](https://free-chickens-8769.glideapp.io/)** ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/b/2/b271e71286192875055ebb297b2f70719b8936cb.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/f/0/f0d117b3be8f409a915e7e218605b83ff59f2283.png) ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/17 "2020-12-27T18:44:21Z")
The RGB color code listed is your background color for the chat field you type into. I would suggest changing this to match whatever color your using with the theme of the App. Black for example is rgb(1,1,1,.5) and light grey is rgb(211,211,211,.5). The decimal number at the end is the colorโ€™s transparency. What I did was went to apps theme copied the current color and pasted it into google, it will spit out the rgb to match that color. Or you can just enter your color as a hex instead of rgb. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/e/b/eb18ceacf351ad36044454d0174c70b0d77679fb.png) ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 3:52am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/18 "2020-12-28T03:52:48Z")
Nightly Build Time!!! Added today was notifications, when a text is sent via the app a notification will be sent to their device as long as their carrier and phone number is added to their user profile and their carrier allows it. This is done using Google Scripts, you will need to create a trigger for the scripts and the trigger needs to be setup as a onChange trigger. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/d/3/d3eec2e382714aec9a6b3fca3e330e0a0a5e8d58.jpeg) Once you have the trigger, carrier and phone number setup you should be good to go. The exception to this is creating a new chat. A newly created chat does not yet send a notification. I will either finish this tonight or tomorrow. After a chat is created every message sent does yield a notification just not the 1st one. ---
**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 4:25am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/19 "2020-12-28T04:25:40Z")
That was quick. Ok, all notifications are working even with new chats created ๐Ÿ˜ ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Pires](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/lucas_pires/32/64863_2.png) [@Lucas\_Pires](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Lucas_Pires)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 4:49am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/20 "2020-12-28T04:49:29Z")
> [@Drearystate](#): > > added some CSS to create a floating field for chat as well as moving all chat directly into Glide sheets so responses are instantaneous. This one @Drearystate? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/0/2/0280b85d1ac983ce97a7e30cea1d88cc7b4d5296.jpeg) [Next page](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247.md?page=2)