Support for paste-ing .gif into chat composer

[srgray]

What are you trying to achieve?

I would like to support paste-ing (from the iOS system pasteboard) a .gif animated image into the composer. StreamChatUI already supports paste-ing an image (.jpg, e.g.) into the composer. What would be the recommended way to also support .gif types?

[srgray]

After inspecting the iOS system pasteboard after copy-ing a .gif, there exists 2 items: a single still image of the .gif and a url to the .gif file.

[nuno-vieira]

Hi @srgray!

Are you still blocked by this?

Currently, we only support pasting images. Gifs and Videos will be coming too but we don't have an ETA yet for this. If you can't wait and want to implement yourself, the right place to do so is here:
https://github.com/GetStream/stream-chat-swift/blob/develop/Sources/StreamChatUI/CommonViews/InputTextView/InputTextView.swift#L166-L172

You need to override the paste() method and new a new event to the clipboardAttachmentDelegate. Feel free to open a PR with your solution if you want to contribute 👍

Best,
Nuno