When there are few messages in the chat and the keyboard is opened the text messages bounce up and down.
Bouncing occurs when the height of the content inside the chat listview is lower than the height of the keyboard
Support for Loading messages on demand
In Xamarin's CollectionView there is a RemainingItemsThresholdReachedCommand attribute that allows you to support lazy loading. Once the user scrolls passed a certain point, a command can be called to load in more messages for example.
Capability to automatically detect the at symbol "@" for mentions (maybe against a collection of 'contacts') and the ability to detect the pound symbol '#' for hashtag creation.
Currently, the Avatar property is a string for a path, this is problematic and only support two scenarios (file and uri paths).
I'm requesting that this be changed to be of type ImageSource, which matches the paradigm used by all other Image controls in Xamarin.Forms. This would allow stream and byte[] sources as well as file and uri paths.
Note:
This doesn't have to be a breaking change, you can use an implicit conversion just like Xamarin.Forms Image source does. The only disruption would be if anyone assigned the string value in code instead of a binding.
The problem is reproduced sporadically on different platforms or devices. As a workaround you would need to add the same images to platform projects. Please find the images attached.
The Conversational UI is a nice control , but it is limited. The Following will make life easier for the developer .
1) A Custom Template that can allow the user add buttons and customize the send button , like whatsup does, it has "Voice Note" , "Image Attachments" etc..
2) Also allow the user to be able to add images on the chat control itself.
On iOS, need a way to dismiss the keyboard that doesn't require tapping the "Return" key, On Android, this is done with a tap gesture. On iOS this is usually done with a swipe down gesture.