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MessageKit(new) v0.8.0 Release Notes

  • 🚀 This release closes the 0.8 milestone.

    ➕ Added

    • 💥 Breaking Change MessageData now supports .photo(UIImage), .location(CLLocation), .video(file: URL, thumbnail: UIImage) cases.
    • 💥 Breaking Change MessageCollectionViewCell is now generic over its ContentView constrained to UIView.
    • 💥 Breaking Change TextMessageCell subclass of MessageCollectionViewCell to support text messages.
    • 👍 MediaMessageCell subclass of MessageCollectionViewCell to support photo/video messages.
    • 👍 LocationMessageCell subclass of MessageCollectionViewCell to support location messages.
    • ➕ Adds LocationMessageLayoutDelegate for sizing of location messages.
    • ➕ Adds MediaMessageLayoutDelegate for sizing of media messages.
    • 👍 AvatarView now supports fontMinimumScaleFactor, placeholderFontColor, and placeholderFont properties

    🔄 Changed

    • Keyboard handling no longer adjusts the top & bottom insets for MessagesCollectionView.
    • 💅 MessageStyles are now applied as a mask on the MessageContainerView

    🗄 Deprecated

    • MessageCollectionViewCell's messageLabel has been renamed to messageContentView
    • 🗄 AvatarView's setBackground(color: UIColor) method has been deprecated in favor of backgroundColor
    • 🗄 AvatarView's getImage() method has been deprecated in favor of a new image property.

    🛠 Fixed

    • 🛠 Fixes extra height on text messages due to font specified in MessagesCollectionViewFlowLayout not being applied.
    • AvatarView's placeholder image is no longer constrained to a size of 30 x 30.
    • AvatarView's placeholder text can now auto-adjust based on available width.