Robrix: a Rust Matrix client built atop Robius

Robrix is a Matrix chat client written in Rust to demonstrate the functionality of the Robius, a framework for multi-platform application development in Rust.

⚠️ Robrix is just getting started and is not yet fully functional.

It is currently based on the Makepad WeChat example; only the first "Rooms" tab is in use.

Building and Running

Install Rust, and then simply run:

cargo run -- 'USERNAME' 'PASSWORD' ['HOMESERVER_URL']

• Robrix only supports a standard username + password login currently.
  • Note the usage of single quotes (not double quotes), which will prevent your shell from treating certain symbols as globs/regex patterns.
  • If you created your Matrix account using a third-party Single Sign On (SSO) like a Google account, you can set a standard password by using Element's password reset form.
• The HOMESERVER_URL argument is optional and uses the "https://matrix-client.matrix.org/" URL by default.

Feature status tracker

These are generally sorted in order of priority. If you're interested in helping out with anything here, please reach out via a GitHub issue or on our Robius matrix channel.

Basic room views and fundamental actions

• View list of joined rooms
• View timeline of events in a single room
• Fetch and display room avatars
• Fetch user profiles (displayable names)
• Fetch and display user profile avatars
• Backwards pagination (upon viewing a room timeline)
• Dynamic backwards pagination based on scroll position/movement
• Loading animation while waiting for pagination request
• Stable positioning of events view during timeline update
• Display of simple text-only messages
• Rich text formatting for message bodies
• Display multimedia (non-text) message events
• Display reactions (annotations)
• Inline link previews
• Inline reply view
• Interactive reaction button, send reactions
• Reply button, send reply
• Error display banners: no connection, failure to login, sync timeout.
• Collapsible/expandable view of contiguous "small" events
• Encrypted rooms, decrypting messages
• Sending messages

Auxiliary/admin features: login, registration, settings

• Username/password login screen
• SSO, other 3rd-party auth providers login screen
• Dedicated view of spaces
• Dedicated view of direct messages (DMs)
• Search messages
• Room browser / search
• Room creation
• Room settings/info screen
• Room members pane
• User profile settings screen
• Persistence of app state to disk