Michal Ždanský Currently, there are a number of chat applications that support many protocols, and if you want to use a specific service, it usually has its own iOS client. Facebook, Hangouts, ICQ, they all have their official presence in the App Store. However, with the advent of iOS 7, a remarkable thing happened with third parties. Many developers updated the appearance of their applications to suit the new design language, often forgetting their identity. Previously nice and distinctive applications have become boring white surfaces with blue icons and font. Facebook Chat met the same fate.
Bubble Chat brings a breath of fresh air to this monotonous white flood of apps. It's a bit out of step with current trends on iOS. It does not use Helvetica Neue Ultralight as the base font, nor does it contain white areas. The entire application is wrapped in a nice blue coat. After connecting to Facebook, it will start showing your friends list. Bubble Chat has an interesting feature - it can detect faces and center them in circular portraits.
You can then switch between the friends list and the conversation from the top bar. The application makes good use of photos from your friends' profiles and cleverly displays them as part of the background. The conversation view then displays the last received message from each contact, and a new conversation can also be started from this screen.
Conversations work classically, you can send messages, photos and videos, only group conversations and stickers are not supported by the application, as Facebook does not have a public API for them. On the other hand, there is an interesting bonus in the form of drawing. Bubble Chat features a simple drawing editor (similar to Draw Something) with a limited number of colors, line weights, and an eraser. You can then send the resulting image to a friend.
Although the entire app is blue, after purchasing an In-App Purchase you get the option to customize the colors of the app. So you can set your contact list background or assign each person their own background from the contact detail. The app itself is otherwise completely free.
Of course, it supports push notifications, although they are not always reliable. Sometimes the notification does not appear at all on the first message, instead it pops up on the official Facebook application. Otherwise, Bubble Chat is full of beautiful animations and in general, in terms of user interface, it is a very beautiful application that has its own character.
The application is the work of Czech programmer Jiří Charvát, who collaborated with designer Jackie Tran on the application. So, if you use Facebook for chatting and are looking for a more unique alternative app for that purpose, Bubble chat might be the one for you.
[app url=”https://itunes.apple.com/cz/app/bubble-chat-for-facebook-beautiful/id777851427?mt=8″]
Well, they should still work on making it possible to write in width. Otherwise graphically beautiful
Graphically beautiful, impractical, without In-App Purchase semi-functional. After an hour it went off the phone, I see no reason to recommend it..
The app is great, I got used to it very quickly, I can't go back to fb messenger :D
great, I'm just annoyed by push notifications - they don't get deleted from the notification bar...
and chat with multiple people at once does not work. will not appear.
It doesn't always have group chats. Did you read the article?
when version 2.0 comes out, I'll be there until then, it's an absolutely useless application in a nice coat and with a bomb idea... what's missing or bothering me: I can't archive or delete messages (or I haven't figured out how to do it) and it shows me people who aren't there online and they haven't even been in the past hours, then there's the problem that it doesn't show the pictures that were attached in the messages and it doesn't have enough settings for me... btw I'd be willing to pay for it if they fix all this somehow gracefully :)