GetStream/stream-chat-android 4.11.0

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Common changes for all artifacts

🐞 Fixed

• Fixed channel list sorting

⬆️ Improved

• Updated to Kotlin 1.5.10, coroutines 1.5.0
• Updated to Android Gradle Plugin 4.2.1
• Updated Room version to 2.3.0
• Updated Firebase, AndroidX, and other dependency versions to latest, see here for more details
• Marked many library interfaces that should not be implemented by clients as sealed
• Removed Fresco, PhotoDraweeView, and FrescoImageViewer dependencies (replaced by StfalconImageViewer)

stream-chat-android

🐞 Fixed

• Fixing filter for draft channels. Those channels were not showing in the results, even when the user asked for them. Now this is fixed and the draft channels can be included in the ChannelsView.
• Fixed link preview UI issues in old-ui package
• Fixed crashes when opening the image gallery.

stream-chat-android-client

🐞 Fixed

• Fixed querying banned users using new serialization.
• Fixed the bug when wrong credentials lead to inability to login
• Fixed issues with Proguard stripping response classes in new serialization implementation incorrectly

⬆️ Improved

• Improved handling push notifications:
  • Added ChatClient.handleRemoteMessage for remote message handling
  • Added ChatClient.setFirebaseToken for setting Firebase token
  • Added NotificationConfig::pushNotificationsEnabled for disabling push notifications
  • Deprecated ChatClient.onMessageReceived
  • Deprecated ChatClient.onNewTokenReceived
  • Changed ChatNotificationHandler::buildNotification signature - it now receives Channel and Message and returns NotificationCompat.Builder for better customization
  • Deprecated ChatNotificationHandler.getSmallIcon
  • Deprecated ChatNotificationHandler.getFirebaseMessageIdKey
  • Deprecated ChatNotificationHandler.getFirebaseChannelIdKey
  • Deprecated ChatNotificationHandler.getFirebaseChannelTypeKey
  • Changed ChatNotificationHandler::onChatEvent - it now doesn't handle events by default and receives NewMessageEvent instead of generic ChatEvent
• Improved error description provided by ChatClient::sendImage, ChatClient::sendFile, ChannelClient::sendImage and ChannelClient::sendFile methods if upload fails.

✅ Added

• Added ChatClient::truncateChannel and ChannelClient::truncate methods to remove messages from a channel.
• Added DisconnectCause to DisconnectedEvent
• Added method SocketListener::onDisconnected(cause: DisconnectCause)
• Added possibility to group notifications:
  • Notifications grouping is disabled by default and can be enabled using NotificationConfig::shouldGroupNotifications
  • If enabled, by default notifications are grouped by Channel's cid
  • Notifications grouping can be configured using ChatNotificationHandler and NotificationConfig
• Added ChatNotificationHandler::getFirebaseMessaging() method in place of ChatNotificationHandler::getFirebaseInstanceId().It should be used now to fetch Firebase token in the following way: handler.getFirebaseMessaging()?.token?.addOnCompleteListener {...}.
• Added Message.attachmentsSyncStatus: SyncStatus property.

⚠️ Changed

• Changed the return type of FileUploader methods from nullable string to Result<String>.
• Updated firebase-messaging library to the version 22.0.0. Removed deprecated FirebaseInstanceId invocations from the project.

❌ Removed

• ChatNotificationHandler::getFirebaseInstanceId() due to FirebaseInstanceId being deprecated. It's replaced now with ChatNotificationHandler::getFirebaseMessaging().

stream-chat-android-ui-components

🐞 Fixed

Fixing filter for draft channels. Those channels were not showing in the results, even when the user asked for them. Now this is fixed and the draft channels can be included in the ChannelListView.
Fixed bug when for some video attachments activity with media player wasn't shown.

✅ Added

• Added topLeft, topRight, bottomLeft, bottomRight options to the streamUiAvatarOnlineIndicatorPosition attribute of AvatarView and corresponding constants to AvatarView.OnlineIndicatorPosition enum.

⚠️ Changed

• Swipe options of ChannelListView component:
  • "Channel more" option is now not shown by default because we are not able to provide generic, default implementation for it.
    If you want to make this option visible, you need to set app:streamUiChannelOptionsEnabled="true" explicitly to io.getstream.chat.android.ui.channel.list.ChannelListView component.
  • "Channel delete" option has now default implementation. Clicking on the "delete" icon shows AlertDialog asking to confirm Channel deletion operation.