# Preventing chat message display

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/preventing-chat-message-display/14196>\
**Category:** Android\
**Created:** [April 21, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/preventing-chat-message-display/14196 "2020-04-21T09:52:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![criva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@criva](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/criva)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/preventing-chat-message-display/14196/1 "2020-04-21T09:52:32Z")

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I am embedding Zoom Meeting UI in my Android app following the [example2](https://github.com/zoom/zoom-sdk-android/tree/master/mobilertc-android-studio/example2) with MyMeetingActivity and config parameter zm\_config\_conf\_activity.

Is there any way for preventing chat message display over the video?

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**Author:** ![bragma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/bragma/32/4213_2.png) [@bragma](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/bragma)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/preventing-chat-message-display/14196/2 "2020-04-21T16:02:32Z")

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I have the same problem, I don’t want chat messages to clutter the video window. Is it possible to disable this behavior?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![carson.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/carson.zoom/32/785_2.png) [@carson.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/carson.zoom)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/preventing-chat-message-display/14196/3 "2020-04-22T06:28:46Z")

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Hi [criva](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/criva),

Thanks for the post. You may use the interface `disableChatUI(true)` to disable the chat feature, so the chat won’t show up. If you would like to keep the chat feature and hide the chat message bubble, currently there is no interface to hide these chat messages. I will forward this as a feature request to the engineering team.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![bragma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/bragma/32/4213_2.png) [@bragma](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/bragma)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 7:46am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/preventing-chat-message-display/14196/4 "2020-04-22T07:46:07Z")

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UPDATE: calling disableChatUI seems to do the trick. Thanks @Carson_Chen

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**Author:** ![carson.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/carson.zoom/32/785_2.png) [@carson.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/carson.zoom)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 7:25am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/preventing-chat-message-display/14196/5 "2020-04-23T07:25:11Z")

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Glad to hear that it is working. Happy Zooming! 🙂

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**Author:** ![DeveloperBot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/developerbot/32/12632_2.png) [@DeveloperBot](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/DeveloperBot)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/preventing-chat-message-display/14196/6 "2020-08-21T20:54:05Z")

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Closed on August 21, 2020, 8:54pm UTC