💬 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 - WIP
• Quick Reply messages - WIP
• Load earlier messages -WIP
• Scroll to bottom - WIP
• System message - WIP
• Composer actions (to attach photos, etc.) -WIP

Message object

ChatMessage(
        text: "Hello",
        user: ChatUser(
          name: "Fayeed",
          uid: "123456789",
          avatar: "https://www.wrappixel.com/ampleadmin/assets/images/users/4.jpg",
        ),
        createdAt: d1,
        image: "http://www.sclance.com/images/picture/Picture_753248.jpg",
    );

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
• 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 defaulst 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) - List of Widget to show before the TextField
• trailing (List) - List of Widget to show after the TextField will remove the send button
• 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

License

• MIT

API details

See the dash_chat.dart for more API details

Issues and feedback

Please file issues to send feedback or report a bug. Thank you!