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✅ Added

  • Added support for several languages:
    • French
    • Hindi
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Spanish
      You can disable them by explicitly setting resConfigs inside build.gradle file. Check our docs for further details.

⚠️ Changed

  • 🚨 Breaking change: Firebase dependencies have been extracted from our SDK. If you want to continue working with Firebase Push Notification you need to add stream-chat-android-pushprovider-firebase artifact to your App
    Check our docs for further details.
  • Updated the Kotlin version to latest supported - 1.5.21.

stream-chat-android

🐞 Fixed

  • Fixed markdown links rendering using custom linkify implementation.

stream-chat-android-client

✅ Added

  • PushMessage class created to store Push Notification data
  • PushDeviceGenerator interface to obtain the Push Token and create the Device

⚠️ Changed

  • Device class has an extra attribute with the PushProvider used on this device
  • Breaking change: ChatClient.setDevice() and ChatClient.addDevice() now receive a device instance, instead of only receive the push provider token
  • RemoteMessage from Firebase is not used anymore inside of our SDK, now it needs to be used with PushMessage class
  • NotificationConfig has a new list of PushDeviceGenerator instance to be used for generating the Push Notification Token. If you were using Firebase as your Push Notification Provider, you need to add FirebasePushDeviceGenerator to your NotificationConfig object to continue working as before. FirebasePushDeviceGenerator receive by constructor the default FirebaseMessaging instance to be used, if you would like to use your own instance and no the default one, you can inject it by constructor. Unneeded Firebase properties have been removed from this class.

❌ Removed

  • 🚨 Breaking change: Remove ChatClient.isValidRemoteMessage() method. It needs to be handled outside
  • 🚨 Breaking change: Remove ChatClient.handleRemoteMessage(RemoteMessage). Now it needs to be used ChatClient.handlePushMessage(PushMessage)

stream-chat-android-offline

🐞 Fixed

  • Fixed the event sync process when connection is recovered

stream-chat-android-ui-common

❌ Removed

  • Removed unnecessary "draft" filter from the default channel list filter as it is only relevant to the sample app

stream-chat-android-ui-components

🐞 Fixed

  • Fixed attachments of camera. Now multiple videos and pictures can be taken from the camera.
  • Added the possibility to force light and dark theme. Set it in inside ChatUI to make all views, fragments and activity of the SDK light.
  • Fixed applying style to SuggestionListView when using it as a standalone component. You can modify the style using suggestionListViewTheme or TransformStyle::suggestionListStyleTransformer
  • Fixed markdown links rendering using custom linkify implementation.

✅ Added

  • Added MessageListView::setDeletedMessageListItemPredicate function. It's responsible for adjusting visibility of the deleted MessageListItem.MessageItem elements.
  • Added streamUiAttachmentSelectionBackgroundColor for configuring attachment's icon background in AttachmentSelectionDialogFragment
  • Added streamUiAttachmentSelectionAttachIcon for configuring attach icon in AttachmentSelectionDialogFragment
  • Added support for pinned messages:
    • Added a button to pin/unpin a message to the message options overlay
    • Added MessageListView::setMessagePinHandler and MessageListView::setMessageUnpinHandler methods to provide custom handlers for aforementioned button
    • Added PinnedMessageListView to display a list of pinned messages. The view is supposed to be used with PinnedMessageListViewModel and PinnedMessageListViewModelFactory
  • Possibility to transform MessageItems before the are displayed in the screen.
    Use the MessageListView.setMessageItemTransformer for make the necessary transformation. This example makes groups of messages if they were created less than one hour apart: 
binding.messageListView.setMessageItemTransformer { list ->
  list.mapIndexed { i, messageItem ->
        var newMessageItem = messageItem

        if (i < list.lastIndex) {
            val nextMessageItem = list[i + 1]

            if (messageItem is MessageListItem.MessageItem &&
                nextMessageItem is MessageListItem.MessageItem
            ) {
                val thisInstant = messageItem.message.createdAt?.time?.let(Instant::ofEpochMilli)
                val nextInstant = nextMessageItem.message.createdAt?.time?.let(Instant::ofEpochMilli)

                if (nextInstant?.isAfter(thisInstant?.plus(1, ChronoUnit.HOURS)) == true) {
                    newMessageItem = messageItem.copy(positions = listOf(MessageListItem.Position.BOTTOM))
                } else {
                    newMessageItem =
                        messageItem.copy(positions = messageItem.positions - MessageListItem.Position.BOTTOM)
                }
            }
        }

        newMessageItem
    }
}
  • Added possibility to customize the appearance of pinned message in theMessageListView using the following attributes:
    • streamUiPinMessageEnabled - attribute to enable/disable "pin message" feature
    • streamUiPinOptionIcon - icon for pin message option
    • streamUiUnpinOptionIcon - icon for unpin message option
    • streamUiPinnedMessageIndicatorTextSize, streamUiPinnedMessageIndicatorTextColor, streamUiPinnedMessageIndicatorTextFontAssets, streamUiPinnedMessageIndicatorTextFont, streamUiPinnedMessageIndicatorTextStyle attributes to customize "pinned by" text
    • streamUiPinnedMessageIndicatorIcon - icon in the message list indicating that a message was pinned
    • streamUiPinnedMessageBackgroundColor - the background color of a pinned message in the message list
  • Added possibility to customize PinnedMessageListView style using streamUiPinnedMessageListStyle theme attribute or TransformStyle.pinnedMessageListViewStyleTransformer. The list of available style attributes can be found in attrs_pinned_message_list_view.xml. The default style for PinnedMessageListView is StreamUi.PinnedMessageList.

⚠️ Changed

  • 🚨 Breaking change: the deleted MessageListItem.MessageItem elements are now displayed by default to all the users. This default behavior can be customized using MessageListView::setDeletedMessageListItemPredicate function. This function takes an instance of MessageListItemPredicate. You can pass one of the following objects:
    • DeletedMessageListItemPredicate.VisibleToEveryone
    • DeletedMessageListItemPredicate.NotVisibleToAnyone
    • or DeletedMessageListItemPredicate.VisibleToAuthorOnly
      Alternatively you can pass your custom implementation by implementing the MessageListItemPredicate interface if you need to customize it more deeply.

stream-chat-android-compose

🐞 Fixed

  • Fixed a bug where we didn't use the Channel.getDisplayName() logic for the MessageListHeader.
  • Fixed a bug where lazy loading for Channels wasn't working consistently

⬆️ Improved

  • Updated Jetpack Compose to 1.0.1
  • Updated Accompanist libraries to 0.16.1
  • Updated KTX Activity to 1.3.1
  • Exposed functionality for getting the displayName of Channels.
  • Added updated logic to Link preview attachments, which chooses either the titleLink or the ogUrl when loading the data, depending on which exists .

✅ Added

  • Added the emptyContent and loadingContent parameters to ChannelList and MessageList components. Now you can customize the UI of those two states.
  • Added lots of improvements to Avatars - added a UserAvatar, ChannelAvatar and an InitialsAvatar to load different types of data.
  • We now show a matrix of user images in case we're in a group DM.
  • We also show initials in case the user doesn't have an image.
  • Added a way to customize the leading content in the ChannelListHeader.

⚠️ Changed

  • ViewModels now initialize automatically, so you no longer have to call start() on them. This is aimed to improve the consistency between our SDKs.
  • Added a Shape parameter to Avatar to customize the shape.
  • The User parameter in the ChannelListHeader is nullable and used to display the default leading content.

stream-chat-android-pushprovider-firebase

✅ Added

  • Create this new artifact. To use Firebase Push Notification you need do the following steps:
    1. Add the artifact to your build.gradle file -> implementation "io.getstream:stream-chat-android-pushprovider-firebase:$streamVersion"
    2. Add FirebaseDeviceGenerator to your NotificationConfig 
          val notificationConfig = NotificationConfig(
        [...]
        pushDeviceGenerators = listOf(FirebasePushDeviceGenerator())
        )
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