Add Read Receipts Feature (Message Seen Status)

[khamenkhai]

Title: Add Read Receipts Feature (Message Seen Status)

Description:

Hello,

First of all, thanks for this amazing package! I’d love to request a read receipts feature (like double checkmarks when a message is seen). This would improve the chat experience by letting users know when their messages have been read.

Is this something that could be added in future updates? Looking forward to your thoughts!

Thanks! 🙌

[demchenkoalex]

Hey!

I no longer maintain this package as it’s both simple and complex to set up for specific user needs. Without customization, it’s a 200-line code package you can create in an hour or so. But when you want to make it work for everyone, it becomes indefinitely complex.

I recommend writing this package from scratch and adding features you’d like. You can still use the UI part, which I actively support. I’m working on a better version 2 with statuses coming this month and a Firebase example later to show what’s possible, which will be copy-pasteable for a good start.

For your specific feature, I think Cloud Functions is the only way to do it, but you can’t distribute it via package anyway. There must be some articles online on how to do this - basically when someone opens a chat and is in some room, you set statuses to seen for all messages in that room that are delivered.

Best,
Alex