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The user is asking for help with implementing an online and typing status for a chat app. They mention that their PC is currently not working. There is a suggestion to use a package called flutter_fgbg for determining online and offline status. The user asks how to update the status when they go offline suddenly. There is a mention of screenshots or video recording for troubleshooting. The user suggests screen sharing via a call. There is a discussion about the database structure and saving messages. The suggestion is made to use User Preferences for determining online status. The user asks about the system design and how to handle user online status. The solution is not provided

And how about user online status?

what kind of system design do you have in place? is one chat a document? or somethin

You could use the User Preferences for this

https://appwrite.io/docs/client/account?sdk=flutter-default#accountGetPrefs

So when a user opens the app, change the 'isOnline' preference to true, and vice versa

Okay I will explain,

I have a list of friends, so any two people can have a conversation and so the conversation id is unique to these two people only.

On a chatting screen, when this two people are texting, i save messages with this unique conversation id

and each conversation is a document?

Yes

Would you like to have a look?

okay and how do you save the messages? Is it as a JSON object or something?

Aaaaaaa messages are in a collection as a document

Has attributes

okay i guess it wold be better if you showed me your full database structure.

Yes sure

Can I call you, to screen share?

I'd prefer if you can send screenshots or a video recording. I cant hop on a call right now.

okay sure

Tha kyou. But how do i update when I do offline suddenly?

Check out this package on pub: https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_fgbg

If the app is on the foreground, it's being used which means a user is online. If it's in the background, it is not being used so user is offline.

Thankyou Mr.Safwan

@Nuaiman Does that solves your issue?

@D5 couldnt try yet, my pc died on me. Waiting for it to get fixed

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