Does Agora.io RTM provides on typing status? - agora.io

I have developed a chat application using the Agora RTM API and I want to show the "on typing" animation in my application when a user starts typing anything.
So far, I've looked everywhere but I couldn't find any single link or doc referencing to an article that states that agora provides the "on typing" event.
Does agora provides it? Or maybe some method is available which lets you send custom events?
If not then can we do it some other way (For instance, socket.io) and even if we do that way, would that be efficient?
Or should we re-develop our chat system using socket?

Currently Agora RTM SDK does not have the related api. However, there is a work around: When a user A starts typing, you can send a signal through RTM to other users B & C who he is chatting with. On B & C end, when they receive that signal, they can display "A is typing" animation. Similarly, when user A stops typing, you can send another signal to notify B & C.

https://github.com/RyanLarge13/Personal_Portfolio
This is a link to a profile project I have been creating on github where I implement agoraRTM sdk. Viewcode/Javascript/agoraRTM.js you will find code that implements a typing animation. It took me a while to figure it out, but it works well. It might not be the best for production purposes, but for small applications it could do the trick. Look for a showTyping() function. And everywhere I might call it to understand how it is all working.
Basically what I did was listen for the key down even on my form and call sendMessage() every time unless event.key = 'Enter' this sets up a signal defined as undefined to be sent each time a key is pressed and the showTyping() function handles weather or not your animation needs to be displayed. I am sure there are many better ways to write it, but I have yet to find someone who has done it in this scenario. Good luck!! I hope my code is of some type of help.

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iOS Human Interface Guidlines.
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