GetStream/stream-chat-android 4.21.0

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Common changes for all artifacts

⬆️ Improved

• Improved Korean 🇰🇷 translations.

✅ Added

• Added ChatDomain.connectionState that exposes 3 states: CONNECTED, CONNECTING and OFFLINE.
  ChannelListHeaderView and MessageListHeaderView show different title based on newly introduced connection state.
  ChatDomain.online is now deprecated - use ChatDomain.connectionState instead.

stream-chat-android-client

⬆️ Improved

• Added KDocs for Result properties and methods.

✅ Added

• The UserCredentialStorage interface was added to ChatClient. You can set your own implementation via ChatClient.Builder::credentialStorage

⚠️ Changed

• 🚨 Breaking change: Config property isRepliesEnabled is renamed to isThreadEnabled to avoid misleading. Now it toggles only thread feature.

❌ Removed

• androidx-security-crypto dependency was removed. Now, the user's token storage uses private shared preferences by default.

stream-chat-android-offline

🐞 Fixed

• Fix bug when ChannelEventsHandler was not used even if it was set in QueryChannelsController

⬆️ Improved

• Channel gets removed from QueryChannelsController when receive ChannelHiddenEvent

stream-chat-android-ui-components

🐞 Fixed

• Fixed position of reactions. Now the reactions adapts its starting position to fit entirely in the screen.
• 🚨 Breaking change: Fixing positions of reactions in edit reactions dialog. Using a GridLayoutManager instead of LinearLayoutManager, so now there's box with all reactions instead of a scrollable list. The way to customize the box is a bit different, then a breaking change was inserted in this feature.
• Made it impossible to send a message during the cooldown interval in slow mode.

⬆️ Improved

• Better position for icon of failed message
• Small improvment for information update in messages. The ViewHolders only update the information that had a change.

✅ Added

• Added streamUiMaxAttachmentsCount attribute to MessageInputView to allow customizing the maximum number of attachments in the single message.
  The maximum attachments count cannot be greater than 10. Default value: 10.
• Added streamUiMessageMaxWidthFactorMine and streamUiMessageMaxWidthFactorTheirs MessageListView attributes. You can adjust messages width by passing values in [75% - 100%] range.
• Added MessageInputView::setAttachmentButtonClickListener that helps you to override click listener for the attachment button.
• Added MessageInputView::submitAttachments method to set attachments in MessageInputView to be sent with a message.

⚠️ Changed

• Feature of replied messages can be enabled/disabled only locally via SDK. Thread dashboard flag toggles only thread feature.

stream-chat-android-compose

⬆️ Improved

• Added a way to customize the app font family, by passing in a parameter to StreamTypography.defaultTypography()
• Improved permission handling for the AttachmentsPicker to handle only the required permissions
• ThreadParticipants is now public and can be used for your custom UI.

✅ Added

• ThreadParticipants component now has a text: String parameter allowing customizing the thread label.
• Added unread message count indicators to ChannelItems to show users more info about their channels

⚠️ Changed

• CAMERA permission is no longer required to be declared in the App Manifest, because we don't use it

❌ Removed

• Removed CAMERA permission requirement, because we don't use internal camera preview, we request a 3rd party app
• Removed CAMERA permission checks if the user doesn't require the permission in their app