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.

When there are more messages in Chat on initial load, it should scroll to show the most recent ones.

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.

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.

If the ItemsSource of RadChat is bound to an ObservableCollection of chat items and the control is not visible, adding items to that collection crashes the app with the following: 

Foundation.MonoTouchException: Objective-C exception thrown.  Name: NSInternalInconsistencyException Reason: attempt to insert row 0 into section 0, but there are only 0 rows in section 0 after the update

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.

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.

We have implemented chat functionality using Telerik RadChat component. The problem is that the scroll functionality doesn't scroll fully to the bottom on IOS. It randomly stops somewhere in between. The same code runs perfectly on Android. Below I have attached an example code of our solution.

<telerikConversationalUI:RadChat 
          BackgroundColor="White" 
          Grid.Row="1" 
          x:Name="chat" 
          Author="{Binding Me}"
          ItemsSource="{Binding Items}"
          AutoScrollMode="Always"
          ItemConverter="{StaticResource SimpleChatItemConverter}" 
          SendMessageCommand="{Binding NewMessageCommand}"
          ItemTemplateSelector="{StaticResource CustomChatItemTemplateSelector}"
          SendMessageButtonImage="ic_send_green">
</telerikConversationalUI:RadChat>

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

When the keyboard is displayed (after clicking into the entry), the messages listview is not resized,so the first messages are hidden and the user cannot scroll to them

Currently, the HealthcareAssistant demo is lacking in features. For example there are no pickers or any commonly used cards.

Although the TravelAssistant demo does have these features implemented, we would specifically like to see the HealthcareAssistant implementation of them. As it is now, we find it lacking and not a helpful demonstration.

To illustrate what I mean, please refer to the attached screenshot as just one of the possible responses that not currently covered by the example.

Thank you.

RadChat has an InputAreaBackgroundColor property, but it would be nice to be able to have full control over the UI of the entire input area. For example, I have the following UI from my designers that I cannot currently implement using RadChat:

Adding an InputAreaControlTemplate would be much appreciated.

This would allow the user to set advanced Entry properties and layouts.

One such use case was requested:

Set the Entry's MaxLength and add an inline "215/300" to inform the user of how many characters are left for that message. 

When iOS 12.1 software keyboard is toggled, the entry bar doesn't shift to the right height.

In the attached gif, we can see the entry bar shifted up, but not high enough to stay above the keyboard. As a result, the keyboard blocks the entry bar