in advance what the v2 features are and what the design considerations are?

[leeyisoft]

@demchenkoalex You lead the discussion. For now, I'm just an avid spectator.

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currently v2 looks like not much, because I focused on architecture and performance first. As of right now I have:

• dynamic theming (changes based on a device theme, easier configuration)
• thumhash (blurred image) preview while image loads
• cross platform media cache (including web, windows, linux) so much better than https://pub.dev/packages/cached_network_image which is iOS/Android/Mac
• performance (renders 10s of thousands of messages, while v1 struggles with 50)
• architecture based on abstract classes, so it is ready for any databases people might want
• much easier messages animation handling

[demchenkoalex]

hey, I anyway planned to open a big issue with progress done and remaining features + close issues with checkboxes to fix in 2.0 + release an alpha 2.0 build, when at least sending messages work. So I think this discussion is too early right now, but you will definitely see a bigger issue soon. I am currently testing my new architecture with rest api / web sockets and firebase (among other tests to be added) and hopefully everything works perfectly and I will be able to do all this and also open 2.0 to contributions.