v5.0.0

New

• Revamped UI: Experience a fresh, modern design for improved visual appeal and consistency. The updated look enhances usability and engagement.
• Restructured Components: Enjoy a redesigned component architecture that improves scalability, making it easier to build and maintain modular designs.

Enhancements

• Optimized User Experience: Interactions have been streamlined to provide a smoother, more intuitive experience, reducing friction during use.
• Advanced Styling and Theming: Gain greater flexibility with enhanced customization options, allowing you to tailor appearances to suit your brand effortlessly.
• Simplified Integration: Set up faster and with ease thanks to a more intuitive, streamlined integration process.

Fixes

• Resolved: Issue where the Android app would crash when placed in the background with certain app states (e.g., notifications or incoming calls).
• Fixed: Call Button not working correctly on Android, especially when navigating between chat screens.
• Fixed: Outgoing calls not properly transitioning to the call screen after initiating a call.
• Fixed: Inconsistent display of user statuses in dark mode across devices.
• Resolved: App crashes on iOS when switching groups or users in the chat list.
• Fixed: Flickering modal UI on iOS during call initiation and chat navigation.
• Fixed: Group member scope changes not updating in real-time.
• Fixed: App freezing when editing messages in the conversation list.
• Fixed: Scroll behavior issues in group chats and calls screen on older Android devices.

Removals

• Style Props Removed: Style-specific props have been deprecated to encourage the use of modern theming practices, which offer more robust and scalable customization options.

v5.0.0-beta.1

New

• Revamped UI: Experience a fresh, modern design for improved visual appeal and consistency. The updated look enhances usability and engagement.
• Restructured Components: Enjoy a redesigned component architecture that improves scalability, making it easier to build and maintain modular designs.

Enhancements

• Optimized User Experience: Interactions have been streamlined to provide a smoother, more intuitive experience, reducing friction during use.
• Advanced Styling and Theming: Gain greater flexibility with enhanced customization options, allowing you to tailor appearances to suit your brand effortlessly.
• Simplified Integration: Set up faster and with ease thanks to a more intuitive, streamlined integration process.

Fixes

• None

Removals

• Style Props Removed: Style-specific props have been deprecated to encourage the use of modern theming practices, which offer more robust and scalable customization options.

v4.3.8

New

• Added Picture-in-Picture (PIP) mode for Android Calling

Enhancements

• None

Fixes

• None

v4.3.6

New

• None

Enhancements

• Updated React Native UI Kit to version 4.3.20

Fixes

• None

v4.3.5

Enhancements

• Now user details will be pulled from the static JSON data in sample app
• Updated Chat SDK to version 4.0.9
• Updated React Native UI Kit to version 4.3.13

v4.3.4

Enhancements

• Updated UI Kit to version 4.3.4
• Updated Calls SDK to version 4.0.7
• Updated Chat SDK to version 4.0.7
• Updated React Native to version 0.73.6

Fixes

• Addressed an issue where auto-login was not working properly.

v4.3.3

Enhancements

• Updated UIKit to version v4.3.3.

Fixes

• Addressed an issue that was causing the app to crash upon permission changes when the app was in the background.

v4.3.2

Enhancements

• Updated UIKit to version v4.3.2.
• Updated the version of Async Storage to v1.23.1 to improve the app's performance and reliability.

Fixes

• Addressed an issue which was causing visibility problems with the status bar.

v4.3.0

Added:

• Reactions feature

Bug fixes:

• Attach video from gallery instead of the file storage (IOS)
• Replacement of deprecated package in React Native UIKit to support react-native 0.73 (new package @react-native-clipboard/clipboard)
• Scrolling on media messages opens the media message instead of just scrolling fixed.
• Added a new video player to tackle video related bugs.
• Exposed KeyboadAvoidingView props of message composer to give more control to the user doing so fixing bugs with the message Composer for some users.
• Optimised bottom sheet.
• Optimised flow of sending the media messages.

v4.1.0

Changes Made:

New Feature:

Added support for AI Conversation Summary & AI Assist Bot.
Added Call Logs, Call Log Participants, Call Log Recordings, Call Log History, Call Log Details & Call Logs With Details component.