Could we add scroll-to-top behavior?

[sgoodwin]

What are you trying to achieve?

When showing a channel, we have the ability to scroll to a specific message if we know which message to scroll to, but we'd like to be able to scroll to the first message in a channel when we show a channel (as opposed to the most recent).

If possible, how can you achieve this currently?

Technically you can do this if you happen to know what the first message is, but a channel controller only knows about the most recent messages initially.

What would be the better way?

Ideally we'd be able to specify when creating a ChatChannelView that we want it to show first to last instead of showing most recent.

GetStream Environment

GetStream Chat version: 4.36.0
GetStream Chat frameworks: StreamChat, StreamChatSwiftUI
iOS version: 16+
Swift version: 5.9
Xcode version: 15
Device:

Additional context

[martinmitrevski]

Hi @sgoodwin,

We don't have support for such feature. As you pointed out, we don't have support for the oldest message. Additionally, our message list doesn't have bi-directional scrolling support.

At the moment, I'm not able to provide any info about when/if this feature would be added in our SDK.

Best, Martin

[laevandus]

Hi @sgoodwin, if there is a need for such functionality still, please reach out to our engineering support for this feature request.
Thank you!