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Accessing Rocket.Chat through the mobile apps.

Rocket.Chat Mobile

This guide is aimed at helping you navigate Rocket.Chat on your mobile devices.

Installing Rocket.Chat Mobile

If you are using an Android phone, you can get Rocket.Chat from Google Play, and if you instead have an iOS device, you can get it from Apple's App Store.

Sign Up for Rocket.Chat

To create a Rocket.Chat account, you have to join a workspace. After you launch Rocket.Chat on mobile:

  • Enter your workspace URL.

    If you don't have one, you can join our Community workspace

  • Tap on Create an account and either sign up with the third-party authentication providers Github and Google or provide a name, username, email, and password.

  • A confirmation email is sent to your email, and tap on Login or access the URL of the workspace you provided initially to log in.

Login to Rocket.Chat

To log in to Rocket.Chat from mobile:

  • Launch Rocket.Chat and provide your workspace URL.

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  • Tap Login
  • If you created an account with Google or GitHub, choose the respective option or provide a username or email and password combination to log in.
  • If you have not verified your email, you will be prompted to input it and check your mailbox to verify.
  • After verification, you are taken to your workspace's homepage upon successful login.

Exploring your workspace's homepage

Rocket.Chat's homepage has a navigation drawer menu, toolbar, and main body, allowing you to perform different actions.

Navigation Drawer

The navigation drawer menu carries your profile avatar, name, and workspace name at the top and five action items which are Edit Status, Chats, Profile, Display, and Settings.

  • The Edit Status item is used to set a custom status.
  • The Chats item reveals the rooms you are part of, enabling you to select any and start a conversation.
  • The Profile takes you to the screen for managing your profile.
  • The Display item takes you to the screen for display settings for you to choose between expanded or condensed messages, the sort order, and the grouping order of your rooms.
  • The settings item takes you to the screen for app settings such as language, default browser, theme, and more.

Toolbar

The toolbar (action bar) has three action icons.

  • The icon is used to create Rooms.
  • The icon searches your whole workspace for rooms and users.
  • The icon is used to search for rooms that you are already part of or the ones which you might want to join.

Main Body

Your workspace's main body on mobile has the rooms which you are part of and has been conversing. You can tap a room from the list to start a conversation.

Settings

Rocket.Chat mobile app allows you to configure different app features such as language, theme, and more. Let us go through the Settings screen item by item.

  • Contact Us: Email Rocket.Chat support team for your worries or inquiries. Opens in your default email client.
  • Language: Set your preferred language from a range of languages supported by Rocket.Chat.
  • Review this app: Review Rocket.Chat on either Google Play Store or Apple App Store. You are taken to the respective store depending on your current device's operating system.
  • Share this app: Share the link to Rocket.Chat on either of the app stores so that others can visit the link to install the mobile app.
  • Default browser: Choose links in Rocket.Chat to open in Rocket.Chat's in-app browser or for links to open by default in your default browser.
  • Theme: Choose between using your device's default theme or a light or dark theme.
  • Security and Privacy: Modify security and privacy settings. You can reset your end-to-end encryption key, set a screen lock for devices that support biometrics, log analytics events, and send crash reports to our backend. Crash reports help us track and solve bugs.
  • License: Open and read Rocket.Chat mobile's MIT License.
  • Version: Display the version of Rocket.Chat mobile that you are using.
  • Server version: This gives information about the current server version to which your mobile app is connected.
  • Clear local server cache: Delete cached information from your workspace.
  • Logout: Logout from your workspace.

Creating a Workspace

To create a new workspace,

Adding a Workspace

To add a workspace that you are already part of,

  • Tap on the title of your current workspace
  • Tap Add Server.
  • Enter workspace URL
  • Tap connect to log in to the workspace