Is this a dead library?

[felixchan]

It seems that the iOS Slack app has moved on to a custom solution, and no commits since March.

[yarodevuci]

@felixchan looking for good alternatives

[luzianscherrer]

@dzenbot Could you please give us a statement on the status of the SlackTextViewController? Do you intend to keep it alive and updated or should we look for alternatives?

[yarodevuci]

Agreed with @dzenbot need to know what to expect. But it looks dead to me...

[johndoehelloworld]

+1 It'd be very helpful to know the plans for this lib. This is a great library – but lacking maintenance is scary. Have folks here looked into alternatives? I love this lib's simplicity and flexibility – most solutions I have run into are overly complex and do too many things. Pointers are very helpful!

[eliburke]

@johndoehelloworld @yarodevuci MessageKit is making rapid progress on a Swift re-write of JSQMessagesViewController. But it is unclear to me how close they will come to the breadth of features in SlackViewController.

[dzenbot]

We apologize for not being active lately on fixing/helping folks with this library. We are going to spend time addressing iOS 11 bug fixes real soon, as well as other small polishing. Any help is very welcomed too!

[hipwelljo]

Yessss thank you! <3

[andrewcl]

@dzenbot Would it be possible to issue a version bump for this library? The last release is close to a year ago and there are several changes I'd like to incorporate.

[evictor]

+1 any plans to push a release for iOS 11 support?

[felixchan]

@wsb9

[dzenbot]

There is a list of open issues on iOS 11 https://github.com/slackhq/SlackTextViewController/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22iOS+11%22
Everyone is more than welcomed to contribute. We will release once the most important ones are fixed.

[eliot1019]

Any ETA on an update @dzenbot ?

[dzenbot]

See my comment above. If you are using Cocoapods or Carthage, you can checkout to a specific commit or branch. You don’t need a release to be able to update anyway.

[petermoser]

Hi Ignacio, we are experiencing the same issue on iOS11, "Inserting/Deleting cells on iOS 11 causes tableView subviews to be unresponsive" issue #623.
Are there any plans for fixing this or do we need to switch to another library?

[plu]

It seems that the iOS Slack app has moved on to a custom solution

@dzenbot is this true? The Slack app for example supports the panning gesture nicely to close the keyboard. When I clone the repository here and run the examples, this feature does not seem to be working correctly. Would be great to clarify this question. I believe it's important for the community to know.

[jbouaziz]

That feature is native since iOS 8 or 9 if I recall. You need to set the ‘keyboardDismissMode’ property on a scroll view instance. Jonathan Bouaziz

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[plu]

That feature is native since iOS 8 or 9 if I recall. You need to set the ‘keyboardDismissMode’ property on a scroll view instance.

I know, but it doesn't change the fact that it's not working with SlackTextViewController. Just add this to Messenger-Swift/MessageViewController: self.tableView.keyboardDismissMode = .interactive

Result looks like this (iPhone 5s, 10.3.1 Simulator):

[dzenbot]

Although there are still known iOS 11 / iPhone X issues, I've pushed 1.9.6 release, which is also available on Cocoapods. At least, we've fixed the most critical issues. Thanks again to all the contributors! 👏

[beamercola]

@dzenbot it still seems the isKeyboardPanningEnabled isn't working.

setting keyboardDismissMode = .interactive works, but the toolbar doesn't hug the keyboard.

[dzenbot]

@beamercola Please read the docs on that property. It is disabled, on purpose. It no longer works on newer iOS versions.
@plu Sorry for the late response: in short, yes, we are slowly transitioning from SlackTextViewController to a more sophisticated solution, which unfortunately, won't be open sourced.

[scottcc]

@dzenbot, I think these statements should be front and center on the README - a large part of the attraction of using something like this is the backing/usage of the owner of the library. There are many of us who have used open source "magic" libraries which have (through normal software lifetimes) become "abandoned" (see https://github.com/jessesquires/JSQMessagesViewController). It's helpful to know straight out that something is going to be "...transitioned from..." by the original author(s).

[beamercola]

Working maintained fork: https://github.com/GitHawkApp/MessageViewController

[eliburke]

@beamercola MessageViewController is not a fork, and it's not feature compatible. I have hopes, but the author has stated "I don’t plan on adding any messaging functionality to this project". At the moment, it is predominantly an autocomplete control (the @, #, / behavior of SlackTextViewController)

I don't know yet what he considers "messaging functionality" but to be a decent replacement for STVC I think it will at least need to have a baseline implementation of an autohiding input bar with support for buttons/toolbar/attachments and a typing indicator.