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Android Matrix messenger application using the Matrix Rust Sdk and Jetpack Compose
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Add captions to sent image and video files #2573

Open jmartinesp opened 6 months ago

jmartinesp commented 6 months ago

Your use case

What would you like to do?

I want to have some UI that allows me to add captions to image or video files I'm about to send.

Now that https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-android/issues/2521 is implemented it is possible to send both a plain text and formatted caption. It would be nice to be able to send at least the plain text version, if not both.

Why would you like to do it?

It's weird we can display captions but not send them. It's also present in most other IM apps.

How would you like to achieve it?

By implementing some new design that adds a text field to the attachment preview screen displayed before a media attachment is sent.

Have you considered any alternatives?

We could just leave it as is.

Additional context

Something similar to WhatsApp's implementation would probably be a nice fit to expand our current UI:

image

Are you willing to provide a PR?

Yes

surakin commented 6 months ago

Hey! I've been playing with this, would you like to see what I've got? (I put the attachment preview above the composer instead of adding a new text field to the current preview view)

It currently looks like this image