💬 Dash Chat

The most complete Chat UI for flutter

Inspired by react-native-gifted-chat. Highly customizable and helps developing chat UI faster.

Usage 💻

To use this package, add dash_chat as a dependency in your pubspec.yaml file.

Features 🔮

• Fully customizable components
• Copy messages to clipboard
• Multi-line TextInput
• Touchable links using flutter_parsed_text
• Avatar as user's initials
• Quick Reply messages
• Load earlier messages
• Scroll to bottom Widget
• Composer actions (to attach photos, etc.) - WIP

Message object 📦

example, Chat Message

ChatMessage(
        text: "Hello",
        user: ChatUser(
          name: "Fayeed",
          uid: "123456789",
          avatar: "https://www.wrappixel.com/ampleadmin/assets/images/users/4.jpg",
        ),
        createdAt: DateTime.now(),
        image: "http://www.sclance.com/images/picture/Picture_753248.jpg",
    );

example, Chat Message with Quick Replies

ChatMessage(
        text: "This is a quick reply example.",
        user: ChatUser(),
        createdAt: DateTime.now(),
        quickReplies: QuickReplies(
          values: <Reply>[
            Reply(
              title: "😋 Yes",
              value: "Yes",
            ),
            Reply(
              title: "😞 Nope. What?",
              value: "no",
            ),
          ],
        ),
      ),

Parameters ⚙️

• messageContainerFlex (int) - Flex value for the messeage container defaults to 1
• height (double) - Height for the Dash chat Widget.
• width (double) - Width for the Dash chat Widget.
• messages (List) - List of messages to display in the chat.
• text (String) - [optional parameter] If provided will stop using the default controller.
• onTextChange (Function(String)) - If the text parameter is passed then onTextChange must also be passed.
• inputDecoration (InputDecoration) - Used to provide input decoration to the text.
• messageIdGenerator (String Function) - Usually new message added by the user gets UUID v4 String generater by uuid.
• user (ChatUser) - The current user object.

  DashChat(
    user: ChatUser(
      name: "Jhon Doe",
      uid: "xxxxxxxxx",
      avatar: "https://www.wrappixel.com/ampleadmin/assets/images/users/4.jpg",
    )
  );

• onSend (Function(ChatMessage)) - Callback when sending a message.
• alwaysShowSend (bool) - Should the send button be always active defaults to false.
• dateFormat (DateFormat) - Format to use for rendering date default is yyyy-MM-dd.
• timeFormat (DateFormat) - Format to use for rendering time default is HH:mm:ss.
• showUserAvatar (bool) - Should the user avatar be shown.
• showAvatarForEveryMessage (bool) - Should the avatar be shown for every message defaults to false.
• onPressAvatar (Function(ChatUser)) - Callback funtion when avatar is tapped on.
• onLongPressAvatar (Function(ChatUser)) - Callback funtion when avatar is long pressed on.
• onLongPressMessage (Function(ChatUser)) - Callback funtion when message is long pressed on.
• inverted (bool) - Should the messages be shown in reversed order
• avatarBuilder (Widget Function(ChatUser)) - Will override the the default avatar.
• messageBuilder (Widget Function(ChatMessage)) - Will override the the default message widget.
• messageTextBuilder (Widget Function(String)) - Will override the the default message text widget.
• messageImageBuilder (Widget Function(String)) - Will override the the default message imaeg widget
• messageTimeBuilder (Widget Function(String)) - Will override the the default message time widget.
• dateBuilder (Widget Function(String)) - Will override the the default chat view date widget.
• sendButtonBuilder (Widget Function(Function)) - Will override the the default send button widget.
• chatFooterBuilder (Widget Function) - A Widget that will be shown below the MessageListView like you can a "tying..." Text Widget at the end.
• inputFooterBuilder (Widget Function) - A Widget that will be shown below the ChatInputToolbar.
• maxInputLength (int) - Main input length of the input text box defaulst to no limit.
• parsePatterns (List) - Used to parse text to make a linkified text uses flutter_parsed_text.

  DashChat(
    parsePatterns: <MatchText>[
      MatchText(
        type: "email",
        onTap: (String value) {}
      ),
      MatchText(
        pattern: r"\B#+([\w]+)\b",
        style: TextStyle(
          color: Colors.pink,
          fontSize: 24,
        ),
        onTap: (String value) {}
      ),
    ]
  );

• messageContainerDecoration (BoxDecoration) - Provides a custom style to the message container.
• leading (List<Widget>) - List of Widget to show before the TextField.
• trailing (List<Widget>) - List of Widget to show after the TextField will remove the send button.
• showTraillingBeforeSend - Should the trailling widgets be shown before the send button defaults to true.
• inputTextStyle (TextStyle) - Style for the TextField.
• inputContainerStyle (BoxDecoration) - TextField container style.
• inputMaxLines (int) - Max length of the input lines default to 1.
• showInputCursor (bool) - Should the input cursor be shown defaults to true.
• inputCursorWidth (double) - Width of the text input defaults to 2.0.
• inputCursorColor (Color) - Color of the input cursor defaults to theme.
• scrollController (ScrollController) - ScrollController for the MessageListView.
• messageContainerPadding (EdgeInsetsGeometry) - Padding for the MessageListView.
• messagePadding (EdgeInsets) - Padding for the MessageContainer.
• onQuickReply (Funtion(Reply)) - Callback method when the quickReply was tapped on.
• quickReplyStyle (BoxDecoration) - Container style for the QuickReply Container.
• quickReplyTextStyle (TextStyle) - QuickReply text style.
• quickReplyBuilder (Widget Function(Reply)) - Will override the the default QuickReply Widget.
• scrollToBottom (bool) - Should the scroll to bottom widget be shown defaults to true.
• scrollToBottomWidget (Widget Function()) - Overrides the default scrollToBottomWidget with a custom widget.
• onScrollToBottomPress (Function) - override the default behaviour of the onScrollToBottom Widget.
• shouldShowLoadEarlier (bool) - Should the LoadEarlier Floating widget be shown or use load as you scroll scheme whcih will call the onLoadEarlier defaults to false which is this scheme.
• showLoadEarlierWidget (Widget Function()) - Override the default behaviour of the onScrollToBottom Widget.
• onLoadEarlier (Function) - Override the default behaviour of the onLoadEarleir Widget or used as a callback when the listView reaches the top.
• inputToolbarPadding (EdgeInsets) - Can be used to add padding to the input toolbar.
• inputToolbarMargin (EdgeInsets) - Can be used to add margin to the input toolbar.
• shouldStartMessagesFromTop (bool) - Can be used to align messages so that it starts from top to bottom instead of the default bottom to top.
• textBeforeImage (bool) - Can be used to set the order of the text and the image inside a message defaults to true.

Credits 👨🏻‍💻

• Transparent Image - Brian Egan
• uuid - Yulian Kuncheff

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License ⚖️

• MIT

API details 📝

See the dash_chat.dart for more API details

Issues and feedback 💭

If you have any suggestion for including a feature or if something doesn't work, feel free to open a Github issue for us to have a discussion on it.