0.8.0

What's Changed

The following features have been added in this release:

• Protocol v4 support Added support for Chat protocol v4, enabling enhanced message handling. #161
• Destructuring syntax Added destructuring syntax for subscription handling, providing more convenient API usage. #159
• Custom JSON implementation Replaced Gson with custom JSON implementation to reduce dependencies #160

Breaking changes

This release includes several breaking changes:

• Message structure has changed.
• Replaced Gson with a custom JSON interface.
• Presence Data must be a JsonObject.

For detailed migration instructions, please refer to the Upgrading Guide.

0.7.0

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What's Changed

• Enabling the SDK to run on JVM environments in addition to Android.
  This expands the SDK's compatibility to server-side applications, desktop applications,
  and other JVM-based platforms while maintaining the same chat functionality and API.

0.6.0

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What's Changed

Breaking Changes:

• Removes opinionated presence structure 150

0.5.0

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What's Changed

Breaking Changes:

• Renames Reaction to RoomReaction 144
• Renames RoomReaction.type to RoomReaction.name 144

0.4.0

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What's Changed

New features

The following features have been added in this release:

• Message reactions Added experimental support for message reactions. #139

Breaking changes

This release also includes several breaking changes:

• roomId has been renamed to name or roomName throughout the SDK to align terminology with other Ably SDKs #141
• Event restructuring in Occupancy, Room Reactions, and Presence to match the style used by messages and typing indicators #140
• Sending typing indicators and room reactions now requires the connection status to be Connected #140

For detailed migration instructions, please refer to the Upgrading Guide.

0.3.0

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What's Changed

• All Chat features now use a single underlying channel. This greatly simplifies the SDK whilst improving performance.

The following features have also been added in this release:

• Ephemeral typing indicators

Closed issues:

• Update to new Occupancy and Presence RoomOptions #129
• Implement/migrate to single channel #121

Merged pull requests:

• Added type to TypingEvent #131 (sacOO7)
• Feature/single channel integration #130 (sacOO7)
• [ECO-5242][CHADR-093] Implement ephemeral typing #122 (sacOO7)
• [ECO-5256] refactor: getting rid of data classes from public API #119 (ttypic)
• chore: turn on explicitApi for kotlin #114 (ttypic)
• [ECO-5231] Renamed ClientOptions to ChatClientOptions #113 (sacOO7)

0.2.1

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Fixed Room Typing Bug - #126

0.2.0

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What's Changed

The following features have been added in this release:

• Updating messages in a chat room
• Deleting messages in a chat room

The included example app has been updated to demonstrate the new features.

0.1.1

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Fixed SDK version in BuildConfig

0.1.0

Initial release of the Ably Chat SDK for Android. It includes following chat
features:

• Chat rooms for 1:1, 1:many, many:1 and many:many participation.
• Sending and receiving chat messages.
• Online status aka presence of chat participants.
• Chat room occupancy, i.e., total number of connections and presence members.
• Typing indicators
• Room-level reactions (ephemeral at this stage - reactions are sent and received in real-time without persistence)