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---
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id: adding_chat_to_video_livestreams
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title: Livestreams Integration
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---
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Adding Chat To Video Livestreams
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### Introduction
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Video livestreams are usually complemented with a chat section to make the livestream more interactive
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and encourage retention. There are several ways to show the chat interface on the screen and requires
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some design choices.
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This guide details multiple ways of adding chat functionality to your video livestream.
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### Implementing Chat
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There are two common scenarios in live-streaming applications depending how well integrated the two
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components (video + chat) are allowed to be on the screen. Two common types are split-screen and a
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chat overlay that fades in.
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Let's explore creating both types:
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### Split-screen
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In the split-screen implementation, we have a visual split between the video and the message list.
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This allows the content to be unobstructed by chat and have a clear separation of boundaries.
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```dart
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Scaffold(
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body: Column(
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children: <Widget>[
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Expanded(
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child: // Your video implementation here,
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),
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Expanded(
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child: Column(
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children: [
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Expanded(
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child: StreamMessageListView(),
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),
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StreamMessageInput(),
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],
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),
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),
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],
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),
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)
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```
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### Overlapping chat with a transparency gradient
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Another way to add chat is to overlay the video content with messages which progressively fade out
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as we go to the top of the screen. This gives the content a more rich feel as it takes the whole
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screen and allows the chat to be more homogeneously integrated with the content.
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The second type looks like this:
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We can use a `Stack` for achieving this:
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```dart
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Stack(
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children: <Widget>[
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// Add your video implementation here
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ShaderMask(
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shaderCallback: (rect) {
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return const LinearGradient(
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begin: Alignment.bottomCenter,
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end: Alignment.topCenter,
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colors: [Colors.black, Colors.transparent],
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stops: [0.4, 0.8]).createShader(
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Rect.fromLTRB(0, 0, rect.width, rect.height),
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);
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},
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blendMode: BlendMode.dstIn,
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child: Column(
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children: const [
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Expanded(
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child: StreamMessageListViewTheme(
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data: StreamMessageListViewThemeData(
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backgroundColor: Colors.transparent,
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),
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child: StreamMessageListView(),
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),
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),
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StreamMessageInput(),
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],
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),
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),
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],
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),
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```
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