React-native-gifted-chat: [FEATURE-REQUEST] Scroll to bottom if you scrolled through messages

[mafiusu]

Hello GiftedChat coders and users I'm working on a chat app since more than one month using this component. I would like to implement a feature like WhatsApp where the users can scroll down to the last message.

While you scrolling up there should appear a customizable View (like arrow down) to scroll down like in the screenshot below.

What Do you think? Anyone has some hints to this feature?

[xcarpentier]

Can you provide a PR?

[mafiusu]

I've already forked the project and implement it. I will provide a PR in the weekend.

[stale[bot]]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[msqar]

@mafiusu hey maf, thanks for the feature. But question, it says we can pass a scrollToBottomStyle but it's not used in the file, it's always using the stock styling in the renderScrollToBottomWrapper.

Shouldn't be like this by also passing the props styling this.props.scrollToBottomStyle?

<View style={[styles.scrollToBottomStyle, this.props.scrollToBottomStyle]}>
        <TouchableOpacity
          onPress={this.scrollToBottom}
          hitSlop={{ top: 5, left: 5, right: 5, bottom: 5 }}
        >
          {this.renderScrollBottomComponent()}
        </TouchableOpacity>
      </View>

Thanks in advance.

[msqar]

Created this PR