How to hide thread messages in the message list (Slack style)?

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Summary

• How to hide thread messages in the message list (Slack style)?

Customer request

• How can I expose the thread message information in the message, but not expose the thread message in the message list? (like Slack)

Guide & Snippet

• The logic below is a custom snippet with a simple example.
• Create CustomChannelViewModel and CustomViewModelFactory
• replyType of MessageListParams should be ReplyType.NONE which means "Do not include any replies." in the message list

class CustomChannelViewModel(channelUrl: String) : ChannelViewModel(channelUrl, null) {
    override fun createMessageListParams(): MessageListParams {
        val params = super.createMessageListParams()
        params.replyType = ReplyType.NONE
        return params
    }
}

@Suppress("UNCHECKED_CAST")
class CustomViewModelFactory(private vararg val params: Any?) : ViewModelFactory(*params) {
    override fun <T : ViewModel> create(modelClass: Class<T>): T {
        if (modelClass == CustomChannelViewModel::class.java) {
            return CustomChannelViewModel(
                (Objects.requireNonNull(params)[0] as String)
            ) as T
        }
        return super.create(modelClass)
    }
}

• After calling the SendbirdUIKit init function, set the channel’s replyType to the ReplyType.THREAD type

UIKitConfig.groupChannelConfig.replyType = ReplyType.THREAD

• Set your CustomChannelViewModel by ViewModelProvider

ViewModelProviders.channel = ChannelViewModelProvider { owner, channelUrl, _, _ ->
        ViewModelProvider(
            owner,
            CustomViewModelFactory(channelUrl)
        )[channelUrl, CustomChannelViewModel::class.java]
    }

Result

Default style	Slack style