UIKit Release 4.21.1

[Android UIKit]

Version 4.21.1 (July 3, 2026)

Features

• Chat v4: Foundation — fundamental chat structure, message skeleton, enhanced loading experience, reverse layout
• Chat v4: Image and video sending flow with loading overlay and camera video recording
• Chat v4: Reply to message, see more text message page
• Chat v4: Group chat creation with avatar, group settings page, leave/report actions
• Chat v4: Archive channel integration from SDK
• Chat v4: Server-side search with tabs, debounce, and load-more (AmitySearchChannelPage)
• Chat v4: Group notification mode (Default / Silent / Subscribe)
• Chat v4: Config-driven bubble colors, string externalization, and locale support (AmityChatComposerConfig, AmityChatStringProvider, AmityChatBubbleColors)
• Chat v4: Show banned banner in group chat composer; connection status indicator in header; waiting-for-network subtitle
• Chat v4: Edit message, report/unreport toggle in message context menu; save media to gallery from context menu
• Chat v4: Wire chat home search button to AmitySearchChannelPage
• For You feed tab on Social Home with loading shimmer and one-shot settings API
• Event: Copy event link & Share actions on event detail page
• Event: Private community fallback for shared event links
• Livestream: Read-only message banner for visitors/non-members in read-only livestream
• Livestream: Show 'Remove from live' instead of 'Promote to moderator' for co-hosts in chat
• Media: Save button on full-screen media preview dialog; block image/media uploads over 1 GB
• Add showMediaError flag to gate the media-error banner (default hidden)
• Add Live Chat module entry point

Fixes

• PDT-3655: Clip bottom sheet background color
• PDT-2757: Blinking progress bar on chat; chat opens at bottom without scroll jump; renders from cache; group chat load fix
• PDT-3647: Save button on notification settings not working
• PDT-3629/3624/3642: Image and poll dark mode
• PDT-3614/3546: Dark mode reaction display color; pending, event, and story dark mode
• PDT-3595/3597/3577: Delete text color; view story; community settings dark mode
• PDT-3581/3577: Dark mode story and search result
• PDT-3543: Dark mode time picker issues
• PDT-3537/3533/3531/3546/3541/3544/3556: Multiple dark mode fixes
• PDT-3522: Create community dark theme
• PDT-3518: Empty icon color
• PDT-3511/3501: Localization string corrections
• PDT-3510: Copied toast on chat copy
• PDT-3509: Chat search result
• PDT-3500: Open parent message content instead of jumping; fix nav bar overlap
• PDT-3363: Search channel shows deleted users; missing mid-word highlight; shimmer on For You feed reopen; theme tokens and themed disabled-button state
• PDT-2700: Don't auto-navigate when toggling story comments
• PDT-2695: Co-host name display; name-tap opens full co-host actions sheet
• PDT-2553: Clip caption placeholder alignment
• PDT-1754: Harden community-profile join flow; stop community page flashing on state changes
• PDT-833: Reaction picker text
• PDT-832: Show mute icon for current user POV
• PDT-828: Event setup UI
• PDT-808: Fix user/community description readmore text
• PDT-769: Co-host name
• PDT-1685: Chat overlay missing and color fix
• PDT-3610: Comment compose bar save button color
• Fix block action not showing
• Post link previews use server metadata instead of client-side HTML scraping
• Product tag badge color
• Fix missing video thumbnail on quoted message
• Fix group/conversation channel avatar inconsistencies

Android SDK Version

• minSDKVersion: 24
• targetSDKVersion: 36

Compatibility

• Amity-Social-Cloud-SDK - 7.23.0
• Coil - 3.0.0
• Glide - 4.12.0
• OKHTTP3 - 4.11.0
• Retrofit2 - 2.9.0
• Android Paging Data Library - 3.2.1
• Room - 2.8.1
• RxJava3 - 3.1.5
• Gson - 2.9.0
• Kotlin-std-lib - 2.2.0
• Kotlin-coroutines - 1.7.0
• HiveMQ mqtt client - 1.3.1
• Media 3 - 1.1.0
• Compose BOM - 2025.11.01
• Compose Paging Data - 3.2.1
• Camera2 - 1.5.1