FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat 3.5.0 on GitHub

Note

Active development has moved. react-native-gifted-chat is in maintenance mode. New features (including streaming AI messages) and the latest fixes land in the maintained fork @kesha-antonov/react-native-chat. Same API and IMessage model, migrating is mostly a rename: migration guide with a codemod.

What's Changed

CHANGELOG

Features

isAlignedTop='auto' (#2736): a short conversation sits at the top while the keyboard is closed and moves to the bottom while it is open. Works with both isInverted settings.

Bug Fixes

Android navigation bar overlapping the app after leaving the chat (#2755): the built-in KeyboardProvider no longer forces statusBarTranslucent / navigationBarTranslucent. Set them via keyboardProviderProps if you need them.
isAlignedTop cut off chats taller than the screen, which then could not be scrolled.
Reanimated 4 logged "Dependencies should only be used on the web" on every render.

Maintenance

Example app on Expo SDK 58 (React Native 0.88, gesture-handler 3, Reanimated 4.7); iOS builds again. New "Top Aligned (short chat)" screen.
Dev toolchain on React Native 0.88, Jest 30, @testing-library/react-native 14, ESLint 10. Peer dependency ranges unchanged.
Tests for the bubble sent / received / pending indicators by @Himanshu1281 in #2764.

Full Changelog: 3.4.2...3.5.0