GetStream/stream-chat-android 4.18.0

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stream-chat-android-client

🐞 Fixed

• Fixed setting notification's contentTitle when a Channel doesn't have the name. It will now show members names instead

✅ Added

• Added a new way to paginate through search message results using limit and next/previous values.

⚠️ Changed

• Deprecated Channel#name, Channel#image, User#name, Ues#image extension properties. Use class members instead.

❌ Removed

• Completely removed the old serialization implementation. You can no longer opt-out of using the new serialization implementation.
• Removed the UpdateUsersRequest class.

stream-chat-android-offline

⬆️ Improved

• Improving logs for Message deletion error.

stream-chat-android-ui-common

🐞 Fixed

• Fixed theme for AttachmentDocumentActivity. Now it is applied: Theme.AppCompat.DayNight.NoActionBar

stream-chat-android-ui-components

🐞 Fixed

• Fixed the bug when MessageInputView let send a message with large attachments. Such message is never sent.
• Fixed bug related to ScrollHelper when MessageListView is initialised more than once.

⬆️ Improved

• The search for mentions now includes transliteration, diacritics removal, and ignore typos. To use transliteration, pass the id of the desired alphabets to DefaultStreamTransliterator, add it to DefaultUserLookupHandler and set it using MessageInputView.setUserLookupHandler. Transliteration works only for android API 29. If you like to add your own transliteration use https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/icu4j/.
• Improved scroll of message when many gif images are present in MessageListView

✅ Added

• Added scroll behaviour to MessageListViewStyle.

stream-chat-android-compose

🐞 Fixed

• Fixed a bug where the Message list flickered when sending new messages
• Fixed a few bugs where some attachments had upload state and weren't file/image uploads

⬆️ Improved

• Improved the Message list scrolling behavior and scroll to bottom actions
• Added an unread count on the Message list's scroll to bottom CTA
• Improved the way we build items in the Message list
• Added line limit to link attachment descriptions
• Added a way to customize the default line limit for link descriptions

✅ Added

• Added an uploading indicator to files and images
• Images being uploaded are now preloaded from the system
• Upload indicators show the upload progress and how much data is left to send
• Added UploadAttachmentFactory that handles attachment uploads

⚠️ Changed

• StreamAttachment.defaultFactories() is a function now, instead of a property.
• Updated all default value factories to functions (e.g. StreamTypography)
• Re-organized all attachment factories and split up code in multiple packages
• Changed the AttachmentState message property name to messageItem