Element-android: Multiple images in a single message as thumbnails

Created on 8 Jan 2021  路  3Comments  路  Source: vector-im/element-android

When sending multiple images, they all appear one after the other. It is frustrating because if you send a lot of images, it disrupts the flow of conversation and in group chats could be annoying for other people.

Telegram solved this problem in a pretty cool way, as this screenshot demonstrates:

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This relates to the android client, but could also as well relate to the web and iOS clients.

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Thanks for the suggestion. It first has to be decided at the spec level: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/2289

picture bmarty on 8 Jan 2021
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Thanks for the suggestion. It first has to be decided at the spec level: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/2289

bmarty picture bmarty on 8 Jan 2021
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@bmarty thanks for pointing me at that issue! Should we leave this one open as the "interface-side" suggestion and the other one for the backend part of it?

ftyers picture ftyers on 8 Jan 2021
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Hmm couldn't this be a pure client side thing as well? I mean the simplest approach would be to simply combine multiple consecutively sent images from one person into such a thumbnail gallery thing/view...
AFAIR that's how it was implemented in e.g. Whatsapp (at least initially)

violoncelloCH picture violoncelloCH on 9 Jan 2021
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