flutter_chat_ui 1.1.0

Actively maintained, community-driven chat UI implementation with an optional Firebase BaaS.

1.1.0

This release markes a major chat architecture overhaul based on a community feedback. In the future we don't expect such big changes in one release and will try to do backwards compatible code as much as possible.

Breaking changes:

• BREAKING CHANGE: [FileMessage] fileName is renamed to name
• BREAKING CHANGE: [ImageMessage] imageName is renamed to name
• BREAKING CHANGE: [Messages] authorId is replaced with author to support avatars and names inside the chat
• BREAKING CHANGE: [Messages] timestamp is renamed to createdAt. All timestamps are in ms now.
• BREAKING CHANGE: [Status] read is renamed to seen
• BREAKING CHANGE: [User] avatarUrl is renamed to imageUrl
• New custom and unsupported message types. First one is used to build any message you want, second one is to support backwards compatibility

New features:

• Ability to display user name & avatar, showUserAvatars and showUserNames
• Automatic messages animation
• Pagination, onEndReached (use this function to load more items, should be async to correctly show loading indicator), onEndReachedThreshold (value between 0 and 1, where 1 indicates that loading should start when all previous items are visible and 0.5 indicates half of items are visible, defaults to 0.75), isLastPage (if true loading indicator will not be shown)
• buildCustomMessage to build anything you want. Can be improved to modify bubble, PRs are open :)
• Time is moved to headers
• Theme with more customizations

Theme migration guide:

• attachmentButtonIcon, deliveredIcon, documentIcon, errorIcon, seenIcon, sendButtonIcon type change String -> Widget
• body1 replaced with emptyChatPlaceholderTextStyle, inputTextStyle, receivedMessageBodyTextStyle, sentMessageBodyTextStyle
• body2 replaced with receivedMessageLinkDescriptionTextStyle, sentMessageLinkDescriptionTextStyle
• subtitle1 replaced with receivedMessageLinkTitleTextStyle, sentMessageLinkTitleTextStyle
• subtitle2 and subtitle2Color are replaced with dateDividerTextStyle
• caption and captionColor are replaced with receivedMessageCaptionTextStyle, sentMessageCaptionTextStyle
• primaryTextColor replaced with receivedMessageDocumentIconColor, sentMessageDocumentIconColor
• secondaryTextColor replaced with receivedMessageBodyTextStyle

1.0.7

• Disable link preview if onPreviewDataFetched is not specified

1.0.6

• Update dependencies

1.0.5

• Update dependencies

1.0.4

• Additional URL preview bug fixes. Thanks @jlubeck for reporting!
• Update to Flutter 2.2

1.0.3

• Fix various URL preview bugs (see https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_link_previewer/changelog)
• Add an option to disable URL preview. Thanks @Elementarereigniss for the PR!
• Add portugese localization. Thanks @BerkSpar for the PR!
• Update dependencies

1.0.2

• BREAKING CHANGE: onFilePressed is replaced with onMessageTap to support tap event for different message types. See usage example.
• Added onMessageLongPress callback, similar to the onMessageTap.
• Added disableImageGallery parameter to optionally disable the image gallery on the image tap.
• Added subtitle2Color to the theme, which is used to color date dividers in the chat. Thanks @sarbogast for the PR!
• Fixed issues with link preview

1.0.1

• Hide the attachment button if onAttachmentPressed is not passed

1.0.0

• Public release

0.8.0

• Update example

0.7.0

• Update types

0.6.5

• Update dependencies

0.6.4

• Add documentation comments

0.6.3

• Replace universal IO with conditional import

0.6.2

• Update dependencies

0.6.1

• Use universal IO

0.6.0

• Migrate to Flutter 2

0.5.1

• Add gallery

0.5.0

• Update types
• Add empty chat placeholder
• Fix images

0.4.5

• Add attchment uploading handling

0.4.4

• Updated to use partial

0.4.3

• Fixed missing null check

0.4.2

• Dependency update

0.4.1

• Fixed missing null check

0.4.0

• Connected with link preview

0.3.0

• Remove cached image

0.2.0

• Add time and statuses

0.1.0

• Update LICENSE

0.0.9

• Update types

0.0.8

• Update types

0.0.7

• Fix image and file name overflow

0.0.6

• Add file support

0.0.5

• Moved types to the dedicated package

0.0.4

• Fix image support

0.0.3

• Added image support

0.0.2

• Added example

0.0.1

• Initial release