Flyer Chat 💬 Image Message Widget

This package provides an opinionated image message widget for use with the flutter_chat_ui package.

✨ Features

• 🖼️ Cross-Platform Caching: Caches images on all platforms (including web) using cross_cache.
• ⏳ Progress Indicators: Displays built-in indicators for image upload and download progress.
• 🎨 Loading Placeholders: Shows Blurhash or Thumbhash placeholders while the full image loads for a better user experience.
• 📐 Aspect Ratio Preservation: Maintains correct image dimensions during loading for smoother layout transitions (relies on width/height in the message).
• ➕ Optional Overlay: Supports adding an optional overlay (NSFW content, hidden messsage, etc.)

Purpose

This widget is designed specifically to render image messages within a flutter_chat_ui implementation. It relies on models and themes provided by flutter_chat_core and is not intended for standalone use outside the Flyer Chat ecosystem.

Installation

Add this package to your pubspec.yaml alongside flutter_chat_ui:

dependencies:
  flutter_chat_ui: ^2.0.0
  flyer_chat_image_message: ^2.0.0

Then run flutter pub get.

Usage

import 'package:flutter_chat_ui/flutter_chat_ui.dart';
import 'package:flyer_chat_image_message/flyer_chat_image_message.dart';

Chat(
    builders: Builders(
        imageMessageBuilder: (context, message, index) =>
            FlyerChatImageMessage(message: message, index: index),
    ),
);

License

Licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.