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feat(ui): adapt the message bubble and media grids to wide screens - #3034
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StreamMessageItem defaulted maxWidth to 264 while StreamMessageItemProps defaulted it to 272. The message list builds props directly, so it used 272, while anything built with the StreamMessageItem constructor, such as the long-press actions preview, was 8 pixels narrower. 272 is the width the design gives a bubble holding an attachment: a 256 attachment with 8 of padding on each side. A lower cap squeezes it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AP6bV4L7FQYjHoHZeomLxr
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StreamMediaGallery and StreamPhotoGallery always showed 3 tiles per row, so a wide screen got huge tiles and, on a foldable's inner display, a column straddling the fold. They now show 3 tiles per row when narrower than 600, 4 when narrower than 840 and 6 otherwise. The counts from 600 up are even, so the tiles split evenly at a fold. StreamMediaGallery gains a gridDelegate to change the layout, and its crossAxisCount is deprecated, since one count no longer describes the grid. defaultStreamPhotoGalleryDelegate keeps its 3-column layout but is deprecated, as it is no longer the default. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AP6bV4L7FQYjHoHZeomLxr
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…gate defaultStreamPhotoGalleryDelegate now holds the grid that shows more tiles per row as it gets wider, instead of staying a deprecated three-column delegate beside a new default. The grid docs describe that behaviour rather than the breakpoints behind it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AP6bV4L7FQYjHoHZeomLxr
Drop the StreamMessageItem.maxWidth entry, since the message list already used 272, and describe the photo gallery's default by what it shows rather than by its type. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AP6bV4L7FQYjHoHZeomLxr
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Reviewed this layer on its own. The crossAxisCount deprecation is done well (behaviour preserved, assert against gridDelegate, changelog entry), and the delegate is small and reuses Flutter's fixed-count layout. A few comments inline.
| /// Default grid delegate for [StreamPhotoGallery]. | ||
| const defaultStreamPhotoGalleryDelegate = SliverGridDelegateWithFixedCrossAxisCount( | ||
| crossAxisCount: 3, | ||
| const defaultStreamPhotoGalleryDelegate = StreamMediaGridDelegate( |
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nit: could we give this const an explicit type, as wide as callers need?
/// Default grid delegate for [StreamPhotoGallery].
const SliverGridDelegate defaultStreamPhotoGalleryDelegate = StreamMediaGridDelegate(
mainAxisSpacing: 2,
crossAxisSpacing: 2,
);Right now the type is inferred from the right-hand side, so swapping SliverGridDelegateWithFixedCrossAxisCount for StreamMediaGridDelegate silently changed the public type of an exported symbol. Nobody should be reading .crossAxisCount off a default, but the declared type shouldn't depend on which implementation we pick. With SliverGridDelegate, we can change the implementation later without touching the API, and StreamMediaGridDelegate doesn't have to leak into the public type before we decide to export it.
It would be good to add this to STYLE_GUIDE.md as a general rule: public top-level constants and fields that serve as defaults declare an explicit type: the most general type their consumers accept (e.g. SliverGridDelegate, Widget, ShapeBorder), not the concrete implementation class.
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Agreed. Done in 23324df: it's now const SliverGridDelegate defaultStreamPhotoGalleryDelegate = StreamMediaGridDelegate(...), and its docs no longer name the class behind it. Your rule is in the style guide as of 3f8c879, under "Prefer explicit types", including the note that type_annotate_public_apis doesn't flag an inferred top-level const.
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| /// The tiles share the grid's width between them, so a wider grid gets more | ||
| /// tiles rather than larger ones. | ||
| class StreamMediaGridDelegate extends SliverGridDelegate { |
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This isn't exported from stream_chat_flutter.dart. Not a blocker if the default above is typed as SliverGridDelegate, but it means a customer who wants the adaptive grid with different spacing can't get it: setting any gridDelegate loses the adaptive columns. Worth exporting (plus an Added changelog line) now or in a follow-up?
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Keeping it internal for now. gridDelegate on both galleries accepts any SliverGridDelegate, so a customer who wants different spacing or counts isn't stuck, and exporting it would make the 600/840 breakpoints public API. Happy to export it with an Added line once someone asks for it.
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| SliverGridLayout getLayout(SliverConstraints constraints) { | ||
| final crossAxisExtent = constraints.crossAxisExtent; | ||
| final crossAxisCount = switch (crossAxisExtent) { |
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Two small things:
- 600/840 are magic numbers explained in inline comments; named constants would read better, per STYLE_GUIDE.
constraints.crossAxisExtentis the grid's own width after padding, not the screen's, sopadding: EdgeInsets.all(16)on a 600-wide screen gives 568 → 3 tiles. That's probably fine, but the dartdoc should say the breakpoints refer to the grid's width.
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Named them in 656599e (_kMediumGridMinWidth, _kExpandedGridMinWidth), and the comments now say why each count was chosen instead of naming devices, since the width is the grid's own and can be a pane. I kept the public docs at "more tiles per row as the grid gets wider" so the breakpoints stay an implementation detail.
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Changing this default from 264 to 272 widens every bubble built with the constructor by 8px, including the long-press preview, custom builders and customer goldens. The migration doc is updated, but there's no CHANGELOG.md entry. Could you add a 🔄 Changed line, something like "StreamMessageItem's default maxWidth is now 272, matching StreamMessageItemProps"?
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Added in cdf2fd4: "StreamMessageItem's maxWidth now defaults to 272, the same as StreamMessageItemProps."
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| for (final (width, tilesPerRow) in [(402.0, 3), (669.0, 4), (867.0, 6)]) { |
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402/669/867 are all mid-band widths, so a </<= slip or a typo in 600/840 would still pass. A parametrised test on StreamMediaGridDelegate.getLayout at 599→3, 600→4, 839→4, 840→6 is cheap.
Also untested: the assert that crossAxisCount and gridDelegate can't both be passed (expect(() => …, throwsAssertionError)).
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Done in 2226eaa: the widths are now each side of the breakpoints (599→3, 600→4, 839→4, 840→6) through the public widget, and there's a throwsAssertionError test for passing both crossAxisCount and gridDelegate. Checked that <= at either breakpoint and dropping the assert each fail a test.
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…egate Its type was inferred from the delegate behind it, so switching to the adaptive grid changed the public type to one that isn't exported. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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packages/stream_chat_flutter/lib/src/scroll_view/photo_gallery/stream_photo_gallery.dart: 1
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StreamPhotoGallery's default delegate.The current test checks only a 669-wide grid, which expects four columns. A fixed-count delegate with four columns would pass this assertion while breaking the intended three-column and six-column ranges. Add assertions below 600, at 600, below 840, and at 840.
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- test('StreamPhotoGallery defaults to 4 tiles per row on a 669-wide grid', () { + test('StreamPhotoGallery default adapts at the 600 and 840 boundaries', () { final controller = StreamPhotoGalleryController(); addTearDown(controller.dispose); final gallery = StreamPhotoGallery(controller: controller); - final layout = gallery.gridDelegate.getLayout(_verticalConstraints(crossAxisExtent: 669)); - expect((layout as SliverGridRegularTileLayout).crossAxisCount, 4); + for (final testCase in const [ + (width: 599.0, expectedCount: 3), + (width: 600.0, expectedCount: 4), + (width: 839.0, expectedCount: 4), + (width: 840.0, expectedCount: 6), + ]) { + final layout = gallery.gridDelegate + .getLayout(_verticalConstraints(crossAxisExtent: testCase.width)); + expect((layout as SliverGridRegularTileLayout).crossAxisCount, testCase.expectedCount); + } });🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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| `ShapeBorder`, `Widget`. The declared type is the API; the implementation behind it can | ||
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Applied in a3c0852. Checked it against the analyzer too: of an inferred top-level const, final and var, type_annotate_public_apis flags only the var.
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Part of FLU-825. Stacked on #3023 (FLU-826); review only the commits on top of it.
Message bubble width
StreamMessageItemdefaultedmaxWidthto 264 whileStreamMessageItemPropsdefaulted it to 272. The list builds props directly, so it used 272, while anything built with theStreamMessageItemconstructor, such as the long-press actions preview, was 8 pixels narrower. Both now default to 272.Media grids
StreamMediaGallery(channel media, the viewer's "Photos & videos" sheet) andStreamPhotoGallery(the picker's gallery tab) always showed 3 tiles per row. On a wide screen the tiles grew to 300+ pt, and on iPhone Duo's inner display the middle column sat on the fold.ChannelMediaAttachmentsGrid.StreamMediaGallerygainsgridDelegateto change the layout, andcrossAxisCountis deprecated, since one count no longer describes the grid. It still works.defaultStreamPhotoGalleryDelegatenow holds the adaptive grid and is declared as aSliverGridDelegate, so its type no longer follows the class behind it. The style guide now asks the same of every public default. Code that reads itscrossAxisCountno longer compiles; the changelog points toSliverGridDelegateWithFixedCrossAxisCountfor a fixed count.Verified
crossAxisCount, a customgridDelegate, the assert against passing both,StreamPhotoGallery's default, and the twomaxWidthdefaults agreeing. Each fails when its behaviour is reverted.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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crossAxisCountoption is deprecated in favor ofgridDelegate; existing fixed-count layouts remain supported.