Enable customization of SearchResultsView

[oleg-rocks]

What are you trying to achieve?

We are looking to enhance the user experience in the app by adding a custom empty view for searches that return no results within the ChatChannelListView component on iOS (SwiftUI version).

If possible, how can you achieve this currently?

Currently, there doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to implement this due to the complex nature of the ChatChannelListView component, which is deeply integrated with a lot of internal methods and properties not designed for customization.

What would be the better way?

The ideal solution would be to allow override the default SearchResultsView or at least its EmptyView by adding a viewFactory.makeChannelListSearchResultsEmptyView or viewFactory.makeChannelListSearchResultsView methods as it's done for some components.

GetStream Environment

GetStream Chat version:
latest
GetStream Chat frameworks: StreamChat, StreamChatSwiftUI
iOS version:
14+
Swift version:
5.5+
Xcode version:
14.0.1+
Device:
iPhone only

[martinmitrevski]

Hey @kirsanov-dev,

Yes, it makes sense to improve the customization of the search results view. We're going to expose a method for the whole search results view, you can handle the empty state differently in your custom implementation.

Follow this PR for updates: #428.

Best, Martin