How to know Typing Status in XMPP openfire using Smack

To enable ChatStateListener you need to create a custom MessageListener Class

public class MessageListenerImpl implements MessageListener,ChatStateListener  {

    @Override
    public void processMessage(Chat arg0, Message arg1) {
        System.out.println("Received message: " + arg1);

    }

    @Override
    public void stateChanged(Chat arg0, ChatState arg1) {
        if (ChatState.composing.equals(arg1)) {
            Log.d("Chat State",arg0.getParticipant() + " is typing..");
        } else if (ChatState.gone.equals(arg1)) {
            Log.d("Chat State",arg0.getParticipant() + " has left the conversation.");
        } else {
            Log.d("Chat State",arg0.getParticipant() + ": " + arg1.name());
        }

    }

}

Then you create MessageListener object

MessageListener messageListener = new MessageListenerImpl();

And then pass this in the create chat method

Chat newChat = chatmanager.createChat(jabber_id_of_friend, messageListener);

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