Previews of videos are not visible in messageList on Android, but on iOS yes

[JeromeCHA]

Describe the bug When you send a video via Stream on a channel, you don't have any preview on Android, but on iOS yes. (see screenshots below)

SDK version

• 5.0.2

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Click on the attachment button on the input view
2. Choose a video
3. Send it
4. Check on both Android and iOS and see the difference

Expected behavior It would be glad if we could also have a preview of the video on the message list. It would avoid both apps to have different designs and also different behaviors. It is also more convenient to have the preview rather than the filename so we can figure out what the video is.

Device:

• Vendor and model: Pixel 3
• Android version: Android 12

Screenshots

iOS	Android

[MarinTolic]

Hey Jerome,

Thank you for reporting this discrepancy.

Video thumbnail previews are indeed on the roadmap for the Android SDKs, however we are currently waiting for certain backend optimizations before we can proceed with the work. Once we implement this we will notify you. :D

In the meantime I will assign this issue to myself and change it from a bug to a feature request.

Kind regards, Marin.

[kylecfoley]

Hey @MarinTolic,

Is there someone we could speak with at Stream regarding moving this up on the priority list? It will have a significant impact on our chat experience (users will be paying to unlock video content within the chat).

Thanks for your help, Kyle

[filbabic]

Hey @kylecfoley !

We'll see what we can do in terms of the roadmap - in the case, as Marin mentioned, it's a change for the BE team as well and their roadmap is pretty packed. Hopefully we can work something out to have this support ASAP.

As an alternative, we'll look into providing a guide on how to build this custom message item type so that you're not blocked by the request.

As far as speaking to someone from the team about shifting the priority here, we'll look into that as well. We'll let you know as soon as we know more info!

Thanks!

[kylecfoley]

Hey @filbabic ! Regarding your note on providing a guide to build custom message type, that would be great :) Thanks

[JeromeCHA]

Hey @filbabic, regarding the guide to build a custom message type that would help us, it would be awesome to have it with your UI Component, not Compose UI Component 🙇 Thank you very much 🙏

[filbabic]

Hey @JeromeCHA @kylecfoley !

We'll see if we're able to provide something soon, as we are working through the rest of the items you suggested as well as some other higher priority items.

I'll keep you posted as soon as I know more! :]

[JayMehta97]

Hey @filbabic @MarinTolic !

Any updates on this feature or on the guide providing how to build this custom message item type?

Thanks.

[filbabic]

Hey @JeromeCHA!

Thank you for following up - we were actually waiting for the BE impl which should've been ready but we've also had some movement in the company and higher priority items so we couldn't have commited to this directly 😞

There's lots going on and we're still to plan Q3s properly, so once I create the neccessary infrastructure, I'll add this to a sprint so we can focus on that.

Thank you so much for your patience and being understanding, it's been a rough month or so and we really do appreciate it.