[Enhancement] Chat UI

[coen22]

Summary

In Xamarin Forms it's currently quite difficult to make a smooth Chat UI without a custom renderer (at least this has been my experience). And even then it had performance issues on Android.

API Changes

Could you maybe create an API that wraps around some native Chat UI components on both iOS and Android?
https://github.com/stfalcon-studio/ChatKit (Android)
https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit (iOS)

e.g. you could have something like this.

var chat = new MessagesList {
    ShowDateHeader = true,
    Bubbles {
        new ChatBubble {
            SendAt = DateTime.UtcNow,
            Content = new Label {
                Text = "Hey"
            }
        }
    }
}

Content = chat;

Intended Use Case

I think many applications can benefit from a user-friendly Chat UI.

[matt-goldman]

This might be better suited to the community toolkit

[mcguu]

I hate community toolkit

[coen22]

Thanks, I'll post the request there :)