GetStream/stream-chat-android v7.18.0 on GitHub

Note

v7.18.0 is published to the Stream Maven repository, not Maven Central.

// settings.gradle.kts
dependencyResolutionManagement {
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
        maven("https://stream-io-repo.com")
    }
}

What's Changed

New Features 🎉

Add scheduled messages to the Chat SDK by @andremion in #6919
Support quiet hours for push notifications by @aleksandar-apostolov in #6902
Support active member count in query channels by @aleksandar-apostolov in #6903
Generative UI layer for AI messages by @aleksandar-apostolov in #6941
A2UI 1.0 renderer for Compose with the basic catalog by @aleksandar-apostolov in #6952
OpenUI renderer for Compose, from OpenUI Lang 1.0 to charts by @aleksandar-apostolov in #6949

Bug Fixes 🐛

Hide stale custom copies of declared message fields like draft and image_labels from message extra data by @gpunto in #6901
Update the unread label count when marking unread keeps the last read message by @testableapple in #6912
Fix the system crash when picking a camera app from the attachment picker on Android 16 by @gpunto in #6914
Show the messages of a channel whose first load failed once the connection is restored by @gpunto in #6931
Keep the current user's mutes when their profile is updated by @gpunto in #6933
Rebuild CompoundComponentFactory only when its inputs change by @andremion in #6928
Update the current user locally after a successful partial user update by @gpunto in #6940
Fix a channel list showing a channel without its other members after a cold start by @gpunto in #6934
Leave the server user fields out of the custom data sent on connect by @gpunto in #6956
Prevent concurrent channel list changes from overwriting each other by @gpunto in #6958

Improvements ✨

Keep the channel config quotes flag, draft creation date and missing capability constants by @gpunto in #6906
Expose the location timestamps, AI indicator message, member deletion date and channel truncation and translation fields by @gpunto in #6908
Scope typing indicators to the channel or the thread the user is typing in by @gpunto in #6915
Opt-in WS event protocol v3 and keep members it leaves out by @aleksandar-apostolov in #6935

Internal 🧪

Split the nightly E2E run into 4 batches per API level by @testableapple in #6911
Fold the v2 socket protocol into the websocket by @gpunto in #6909
Regenerate the client baseline profile for the v2 socket, event parsing and generated models by @gpunto in #6916
Clean up the docs and parser tests the v2 migration left stale by @gpunto in #6921
Save the E2E Gradle cache on every merge to develop by @aleksandar-apostolov in #6922
Run E2E against a non-debuggable app without StrictMode by @aleksandar-apostolov in #6924
Re-vendor the user, device and push preference models from the current spec by @gpunto in #6929
Re-vendor the channel and config models from the current spec by @gpunto in #6937
Re-vendor the message, poll and reminder models from the current spec by @gpunto in #6938
Add a script to refresh the vendored OpenAPI models from the backend spec by @gpunto in #6959

Demo App 🧩

Drop material-icons-extended from the Compose sample by @aleksandar-apostolov in #6923
Remove the staging setup from the Compose sample by @andremion in #6926

Full Changelog: v7.17.0...v7.18.0